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DURING 


THE  SEASON  OF  1894. 

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INTRODUCTION. 


THE  State  of  Texas,  an  empire  in  itself,  comprising  one-twelfth  of  the 
area  of  the  United  States,  with  great  diversity  of  soil  and  climate,  must 
necessarily  present  a  corresponding  diversity  in  plant  life.  When  all  of 
its  immense  area  is  thoroughly  explored,  it  will  undoubtedly  yield  as 
many  or  perhaps  more  species  than  are  contained  within  the  limits  of 
Gray's  Manual. 

As  is  stated  in  the  Introduction  to  the  Botany  of  the  Mexican  Bound- 
ary Survey,  a  line  drawn  from  the  Pan  Handle  southeast  to  the  vicinity 
of  Corpus  Christi,  divides  the  State  into  two  unequal  portions.  The 
smaller  eastern  part  is  well  watered  as  a  whole,  and  gives  rise  to  more 
luxuriant  vegetation  than  the  other,  where  rain  is  uncertain  and  often 
scanty.  The  flora  of  this  eastern  section,  at  least  in  its  northern  and 
eastern  portions,  has  many  species  in  common  with  the  adjacent  States 
of  Louisiana  and  Arkansas  and  the  Indian  Territory. 

The  larger  southern  and  western  division,  in  many  places  a  veritable 
desert,  contains  many  peculiar  plants,  found  only  within  its  limits,  es- 
pecially in  the  central  portions,  in  the  limestone  foothills,  and  in  the 
mountains  of  the  extreme  western  part.  Along  the  southern  border,  the 
species  are  essentially  Mexican,  intermingling  in  the  mountain  region 
with  more  northern  forms  found  in  the  mountains  of  New  Mexico,  and 
with  characteristic  Texan  plants. 

Undoubtedly  the  best  part  of  the  State  botanically,  and  also  the  least 
known,  is  the  extreme  southern  portion,  from  Corpus  Christi  west  to 
Laredo  and  south  to  Brownsville.  In  the  Mexican  Boundary  Survey, 
the  statement  is  made  that  "the  botany  of  this  region  is  too  well  known 
from  various  published  accounts  to  require  further  details  in  this  place." 

Nevertheless,  the  fact  remains  that  practically  we  know  nothing  of 
what  it  contains.  The  bulk  of  Neally's  new  species  were  collected  be- 
tween Brazos  Santiago  and  Rio  Grande  City.  Between  the  latter  place 
and  Laredo  I  find  no  mention  of  plants  ever  having  been  collected. 
The  rough  character  of  the  country,  its  inaccessibility,  drynesss,  and  the 
great  expense  to  be  incurred  in  properly  working  it  up,  are  formidable 
barriers  to  an  individual  explorer. 

Corpus  Christi  Bay  and  the  lower  Nueces  may  be  considered  the 
northern  boundary  of  this  interesting  tract  of  country.  The  vegetation 
so  characteristic  of  a  dry  country  is  very  marked,  nearly  everything  being 
armed  with  thorns  or  spines.  At  Corpus  Christi,  where  in  all,  eight 


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weeks  were  spent,  one  can  form  a  very  good  idea  of  what  the  country 
between  there  and  the  Rio  Grande  is  like.  The  lower,  or  business  por- 
tion of  the  town,  is  built  where  once  the  waters  of  the  bay  rolled.  This 
low  portion  ends  rather  abruptly  on  the  south  side,  where  the  bluff  rises 
precipitately  to  a  height  of  thirty  or  forty  feet.  It  gradually  becomes 
broader,  until  its  northern  portion  is  about  two  miles  wide.  The  bulk  of 
this  width,  though,  is  an  arm  which  juts  out,  forming  the  division  between 
Corpus  Christi  Bay  and  Nueces  Bay.  Its  extreme  northern  portion  is 
low  and  flat,  marshy  near  the  water,  and  at  times  of  unusually  high 
water,  overflowed.  The  plants  which  occur  on  these  " Flats"  are  those 
which  are  usually  found  in  saline  soil,  such  as  Batis  maritima,  Suaeda 
suffrutescens,  etc.  Here  the  ascent  to  the  plateau  is  less  abrupt,  and 
the  plateau  itself  lower.  Much  of  this  low  land,  at  least  near  the  beach, 
is  composed  of  a  shell  deposit,  instead  of  sand.  One  can  dig  into  it  for 
a  distance  of  several  feet  without  meeting  with  anything  else. 

Corpus  Christi  Bay  is  very  shallow,  the  maximum  depth  being  seven- 
teen feet,  but  the  average  is  hardly  ten.  Nueces  Bay  is  still  shallower 
and  full  of  quicksand.  I  am  told  that  long  ago  Spanish  ships  of  the 
largest  size  were  accustomed  to  cast  anchor  where  now  a  boat  with  a 
draught  of  three  or  four  feet  would  run  aground.  At  present  the  only 
deep  water  inlet  is  Aransas  Pass,  at  the  upper  end  of  Mustang  Island.  It 
seems,  therefore,  that  a  gradual  elevation  of  the  land  is  slowly  going  on. 

The  plateau  is  level,  cut  here  and  there  near  the  shore  by  arroyos,  or 
ravines.  Near  these  the  ground  is  full  of  holes,  which  gradually  become 
larger,  until  finally  they  cave  in,  forming  side  branches.  The  soil  is 
very  rich,  and  is  called  " black  land,"  or  "black  waxy  land."  When 
wet  by  rain  it  becomes  exceedingly  sticky,  great  clods  of  it  clinging  to 
one's  shoes,  so  that  walking  becomes  extremely  tiresome.  It  is  covered 
with  sod,  and  under  favorable  conditions  would  be  a  splendid  agricultural 
country ;  but  lack  of  rain  makes  the  raising  of  crops  uncertain,  and  dur- 
ing the  past  year  many  cattle  perished  from  starvation. 

Until  last  April,  there  had  not  been  a  good  rain  for  over  four  years, 
nothing  but  light  showers  at  intervals,  and  these  scarcely  sufficed  to 
moisten  the  ground.  Early  in  April  there  were  two  or  three  heavy  rain- 
storms, but  storms  of  this  kind  occurring  at  long  intervals  do  very  little 
good  and  often  much  damage. 

During  the  spring  months  there  is  a  great  deal  of  cloudy  weather,  and 
in  the  coast  region,  one  would  expect  to  have  an  abundance  of  rain. 
The  strong  trade  winds  which  blow  almost  continually  at  that  time  pro- 
bably carry  the  clouds  away  before  they  have  had  time  to  deposit  their 
moisture. 


The  features  so  characteristic  of  the  Atlantic  coast  region  are  here 
entirely  wanting.  Swamps  are  conspicuous  by  their  absence,  as  likewise 
are  trees,  which  are  found  only  along  the  upper  end  of  Nueces  Bay. 
Occasionally  Prosopis  juliflora,  the  Mesquite,  becomes  large  enough  to 
be  called  a  tree,  but  even  then  is  low  and  spreading.  Indeed,  low  and 
spreading,  stunted-looking  trees  are  the  rule,  as  the  tall  graceful  forms  of 
a  more  northern  climate  do  not  find  a  place  here ;  but  bushes  of  various 
kinds  are  abundant,  forming  the  dense  and  usually  impenetrable  chap- 
parral.  This  chapparral  is  a  very  deluding  thing,  too.  One  ventures 
into  it  by  way  of  one  of  its  lanes,  which  here  and  there  sends  off  side 
branches,  imagining  that  by  one  of  them  he  will  find  an  exit,  only  at  last 
to  discover  that  the  way  is  completely  blocked  by  a  solid  mass  of  bushes. 
Getting  lost  in  a  place  of  this  sort  would  be  a  very  serious  matter. 

Many  species  of  smaller  plants  are  found  only  under  the  chapparral. 
They  have  either  betaken  themselves  to  these  places  of  safety  for  self- 
protection,  or  are  the  remnant  of  a  flora  which  once  thickly  dotted  the 
open  places. 

When  grass  is  scarce  the  cattle  become  omniverous,  devouring  any- 
thing that  they  can  chew,  whether  it  be  good,  bad  or  indifferent ;  but 
into  the  thorny  wilderness  they-  cannot  penetrate.  The  collector,  in 
order  to  be  successful  in  obtaining  good  specimens  from  these  places, 
should  possess  a  great  amount  of  patience,  go  prepared  to  cut  down  the 
bushes,  and  if  he  is  inclined  to  profanity  will  probably  exhaust  his 
vocabulary  before  finishing  the  job. 

Nine  miles  southeast  of  Corpus  Christi  is  the  Oso,  a  salt  water  lake, 
three  or  four  miles  in  diameter,  connected  with  the  bay  by  two  inlets 
about  fifteen  feet  wide,  and  distant  from  each  other  about  a  mile.  On 
all  maps  which  I  have  seen,  the  Oso  is  marked  as  an  arm  of  the  bay  in- 
stead of  being  separated  from  it  by  a  strip  of  land,  which  at  the  "  Blind 
Oso,"  its  narrowest  part,  is  about  150  yards  wide  at  times  of  unusually 
high  water.  Beyond  this  narrow  strip  of  dry  sand,  is  a  mud  flat,  a  half 
mile  wide,  before  the  waters  of  the  Oso  are  reached.  At  other  places 
the  strip  of  land  separating  the  two  bodies  of  water  is  much  wider,  being 
almost  a  mile  on  the  south  side  of  the  Blind  Oso. 

Between  the  Oso  and  the  Lagoon  de  Madre  is  a  strip  of  slightly 
elevated  sandy  land,  about  three  miles  wide,  called  Flower  Bluff,  the 
principal  growth  of  which  is  the  live  oak,  reduced  to  a  scrubby  bush, 
from  three  to  eight  feet  high.  Several  truck  farms  are  located  on  it, 
and  although  there  is  more  moisture  here  than  at  Corpus  Christi  the 
vegetables  produced  are  often  of  an  inferior  quality. 

In  all,  eight  weeks  were  spent  at  Corpus  Christi,  from  March  3d  to 


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April  i  yth,  and  from  May  28th  to  June  9th.  The  part  explored  was  a 
narrow  strip  along  the  shore,  from  the  mouth  of  the  Nueces  River  to 
Flower  Bluff,  a  distance  of  twenty-five  miles.  One  day  was  spent  in 
San  Patricio  county,  across  the  bay  from  Corpus  Christi.  Away  from 
the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  bay  the  country  is  too  inaccessible  on  ac- 
count of  the  chapparral,  and  does  not  contain  enough  moisture  to  make 
good  collecting  ground,  although  it  might  if  there  were  not  several  head 
of  cattle  to  every  plant  which  ventures  above  ground. 

The  bulk  of  the  collecting  was  done  in  and  about  the  town.  Two  trips 
were  made  to  the  mouth  of  the  Nueces  along  Nueces  Bay,  two  to  the 
Oso,  and  one  to  Flower  Bluff. 

When  I  arrived  there  early  in  March,  plants  were  plentiful  and  bloom- 
ing profusely  after  the  slight  winter  rains.  During  the  last  week  of 
March  a  "  norther"  came  down,  followed  by  another  in  a  few  days, 
when,  as  if  by  magic,  the  plants  began  to  droop,  the  flowers  to  disappear, 
and  on  some  of  the  pasture  land  scarcely  a  sprig  of  green  could  be  seen — 
nothing  but  the  brown,  bare  earth. 

The  most  prominent  herbaceous  plants  on  the  plateau  in  early  spring 
were  Lesquerella  Gordoni  and  a  species  of  CEnothera  as  lately  received, 
apparently  close  to  (E.  primiveris.  Of  shrubs,  the  most  common  were 
Prosopis  juliflora,  Castela  Nicholsoni,  Celtis  pallida,  Zizyphus  obtusi- 
folia,  Acacia  amentacea,  A.  tortuosa  and  Culubrina  Texensis. 

On  April  iyth  I  moved  to  Kerrville,  71  miles  northwest  of  San  An- 
tonio, and  about  280  from  Corpus  Christi.  It  is  a  small  town  of  perhaps 
1000  inhabitants,  situated  on  the  headwaters  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  an 
elevation  of  1650  feet  above  sea  level,  and  is  one  of  the  health  resorts  of 
Texas.  It  is  situated  in  a  limestone  formation  and  surrounded  by  hills, 
the  highest  of  which  are  about  2000  feet  above  sea  level.  Occasionally 
one  of  these  hills  is  isolated  and  cone-shaped,  like  the  buttes  of  the  Bad 
Lands  in  the  Dakotas.  They  are  likewise  terraced,  a  wall  of  rock  two 
or  three  feet  high  completely  encircling  the  hill ;  above  this  a  bench  of 
earth,  then  another  rock  wall,  and  so  on  to  the  summit,  the  intervals  be- 
tween the  benches  becoming  less  as  one  ascends. 

At  the  northwestern  end  of  the  town,  the  Guadalupe  receives  a  small 
tributary  called  Town  Creek.  My  explorations  here  were  confined  to 
the  immediate  vicinity  of  Kerrville,  along  the  banks  of  the  Guadalupe  for 
a  distance  of  about  two  miles,  along  the  banks  of  Town  Creek  for  about  a 
mile,  and  the  surrounding  hills,  principally  those  on  the  left  bank  of  the 
river,  and  at  a  distance  of  about  a  mile  from  the  town.  One  day  was 
spent  along  Bear  Creek,  in  the  extreme  northeastern  part  of  the  county, 
one  trip  made  to  a  point  on  Wolf  Creek,  about  fourteen  miles  north  of 


Kerrville,  and  one  trip  up  Town  Creek  for  a  distance  of  about  seven 
miles. 

For  at  least  twenty-five  miles  on  all  sides,  and  for  many  more  in  some 
directions,  the  same  limestone  formation  prevails,  and  plant  life  appears 
to  be  pretty  uniform  throughout.  Having  found  by  experience  that  long 
trips  yielded  practically  the  same  things  which  I  could  find  within  a 
radius  of  a  mile  from  Kerrville,  I  directed  my  attention  to  thoroughly 
exploring  a  small  area,  dividing  the  time  so  that  each  particular  place 
was  visited  once  a  week. 

The  steep,  stony,  left  bank  of  the  river  for  a  distance  of  about  one- 
fourth  of  a  mile  took  up  at  least  two  days  of  the  week,  Town  Creek  one 
or  two,  and  the  hills  the  balance  of  time.  To  the  best  of  my  knowledge, 
horehound,  which  is  abundant  about  the  streets,  and  a  species  of  Juniper 
occasionally  met  with  along  Town  Creek,  are  the  only  plants  found  in 
flower  or  fruit  between  the  middle  of  April  and  the  first  of  July  that  I 
did  not  collect. 

The  characteristic  plants  of  the  limestone  region  in  Kerr  county  are 
many.  In  fact  the  bulk  of  the  species  are  plentiful  over  the  whole  area 
at  certain  elevations.  At  no  place  is  there  a  greater  range  of  more  than 
400  feet  between  the  lowest  and  the  highest  elevations,  yet  a  number  of 
species  growin'g  abundantly  on  all  the  hilltops  are  not  found  at  the  lowest 
elevations,  and  some  of  them  only  on  the  summits.  Acacia  Roemeriana, 
Coreopsis  Drummondii  Thelesperma  filifoliiim,  B  if  or  a  Americana,  and 
Brazoria  scutellarioides  are  examples  of  the  hilltop  flora.  A  few  of 
those  found  at  both  the  highest  and  lowest  elevations  are  Lesquerella 
recurvafa,  Kuhnistera  pulcherrima.  Cassia  Roemeriana  and  Erigonum 
longifolium.  Along  streams,  the  dwarf  walnut,  Juglans  rupestris,  is 
very  plentiful. 

Three  trips  were  made  to  San  Antonio,  with  very  satisfactory  results, 
the  rich,  moist  ground  along  the  river  banks  always  producing  an 
abundance  of  plants. 

In  all,  573  numbers  were  collected,  only  a  few  of  them  being  dupli- 
cated. Of  these,  39  were  collected  at  San  Antonio,  4  at  Kenedy,  Carnes 
county,  8  at  Waco,  McLennan  county,  248  about  Corpus  Christi,  and 
299  about  Kerrville. 

The  orders  represented  by  the  largest  number  of  species  are  Com- 
positae  and  grasses,  of  which  some  60  species  each  were  collected. 
Texas  is  very  prolific  in  grasses,  but  they  grow  in  scattered  clumps  or  as 
solitary  plants,  rarely  forming  a  sward,  as  they  do  further  north.  The 
Leguminosae  are  represented  by  over  50  species,  many  of  which  are 


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very  plentiful.     Next  come  Euphorbiaceae  with  about  25  species,  La- 
biatae  with  20,  and  Umbelliferae  and  Cruciferae  with  12  or  15. 

As  before  mentioned,  Corpus  Christi  Bay  and  the  lower  Nueces  may 
be  considered  the  northern  boundary  of  a  flora  peculiar  to  southern 
Texas.  Within  the  limits  of  this,  six  of  my  eleven  new  species  were  col- 
lected, and  a  number  of  rare  ones  re-discovered. 

Between  this  and  the  more  elevated  limestone  district,  is  a  tract  200 
miles  wide  at  some  places,  which  appears  to  have  a  flora  more  or  less 
distinct  from  the  other  two  sections,  although  many  species  common  to 
both  are  found  within  its  limits.  My  knowledge  of  this  central  tract 
was  obtained  principally  from  observations  made  along  the  railroad  while 
traveling.  Here  the  Mesquite  is  much  more  abundant  than  in  the  south- 
ern section,  while  in  the  limestone  region  proper  it  seems  to  be  entirely 
wanting. 

At  San  Antonio,  or  rather  a  few  miles  west,  the  limestone  formation 
and  hilly  ground  begins,  with  a  distinct  and  sharply  marked  flora,  the 
Mesquite  and  other  plants  so  common  and  rather  monotonous  suddenly 
giving  place  to  groups  of  Sapindus,  Monarda  citriodora,  etc. 

My  thanks  are  due  to  Mr.  Frederick  V.  Coville,  Government  Botanist, 
who  kindly  gave  me  the  opportunity  of  making  my  determinations  at 
the  U.  S.  National  Herbarium,  and  determined  the  fund;  to  Mr.  J.  N. 
Rose,  who  determined  the  Umbelliferae ;  to  Prof.  F.  Lamson  Scribner, 
for  the  determination  of  the  grasses ;  to  Dr.  N.  L.  Britton,  for  the  use  of 
the  botanical  library  of  Columbia  College  and  of  the  herbarium  while 
making  corrections  and  final  determinations ;  to  Mr.  John  K.  Small,  for 
the  determination  of  the  Polygonums  and  Rumex ;  to  Dr.  Thos.  C.  Por- 
ter, for  the  determination  of  100  of  the  first  numbers,  and  to  Mr.  M.  S. 
Bebb,  for  the  determination  of  the  willows.  Without  the  aid  of  these 
gentlemen,  it  would  have  been  impossible  to  produce  the  present  work. 

In  the  matter  of  citations  of  publication,  it  is  to  be  regretted  that  in 
perhaps  a  dozen  cases  the  date  could  not  be  obtained.  Certain  numbers 
of  the  Botanical  Magazine  and  Botanical  Register  could  not  be  con- 
sulted, as  well  as  several  other  works. 

Apology  must  be  made  for  the  unnecessary  omission  of  many  type 
localities.  The  first  part  of  the  enumeration  was  prepared  before  I  had 
access  to  the  original  descriptions,  and  later  this  omission  was  over- 
looked. 

The  last  line  in  the  paragraphs  under  the  enumeration  and  descrip- 
tions of  species  refers  to  the  date  of  collection  and  the  number  of  the 
plant,  the  latter  in  parenthesis,  as  "  May  26  (1781)." 


ENUMERATION  AND  DESCRIPTIONS 


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SPECIES. 


FILICES. 

ADIANTUM  L.  Sp.  PL  1094  (1753). 
Adiantum  Capillus-Veneris  L.  Sp.  PI.  1096  (1753). 

On  a  dripping  limestone  bluff  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  at 
Kerrville,  where  it  was  plentiful  for  a  distance  of  about  400  yards. 
Altitude  1625  feet-  The  only  favorable  situation  in  that  region  for  its 
growth. 

July  2  (1939). 

DRYOPTERIS  Adans.  Fam.  PI.  2:   20  (1763. 
Dryopteris  patens  (Swartz)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PI.  813  (1891). 

As pidium patens  Swartz,  in  Schrader's  Jour.  2  :   26  (1800). 
On  the  banks  of  the  San  Antonio  just  below  the  S.  P.  bridge,  altitude 
600  ieet.     Only  a  few  plants  were  seen. 
June  9,  (1835);  type  locality,  W.  Jamaica. 

CONIFERAE. 

TAXODIUM  (L.)  L.  C.  Rich.  Ann.  Mus.  Paris  16;  298  (1810). 

Taxodium  distichum  (L.)   L.   C.  Rich.  Ann.  Mus.  Paris  16  :  298 

(1810). 

Cupressus  disticha  L.  Sp.  PL  1003  (1753). 

A  number  of  fine  large  trees  on  the  upper  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville, 
altitude  1600  feet.  No  "knees"  were  observed,  and  usually  the  trees  were 
found  growing  on  the  dry  banks.  This,  and  a  species  of  Juniper  unfor- 
tunately not  collected,  were  the  only  Conifers  in  the  region. 

April  19  and  June  20  (1620). 


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GRAMINEAE. 

ANDROPOGON  L.  Sp.  PL  1045  (i753)- 

[SORGHUM  Pers.  Syn.  i :    101   (1805).] 
[CHRYSOPOGON  Trin.  Fund.  Agrost.  187  (1820).] 

Andropogon  Halapensis    CL.)  Brot.  Flor.  Lusit.  i  :  89  (1804). 
Holcus  Halapensis  L.  Sp.  PI.  1047  (1753). 
Sorghum  Halapense  Pers.  Syn.  i  :    101  (1805). 

Common  in  cultivation  under  the  name  of  "Johnson  grass,"  but 
naturalized  in  many  places.  Vigorous  plants  were  seen  on  the  stony 
banks  of  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1630  feet,  at  a  distance  from  culti- 
vated ground.  San  Antonio,  Bexar  county,  altitude  600  feet,  on  the 
edge  of  a  cultivated  field. 

May  5  (1706). 
Andropogen  saccharoides  Sw.  Fl.  Ind.  Occ.  i  :   205  (1797). 

A  few  plants  collected  in  a  grassy  level  place  along  the  San  Antonio, 
altitude  600  feet,  but  an  abundance  of  it  was  seen  on  the  stony  sloping 
left  bank  of  the  Gaudalupe,  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1630  feet. 

May  5  (1704);  type  locality,  S.  Jamaica. 

NAZIA  Adans.  Fam.  PI.  2:   31  (1763). 
[TRAGUS  Hall.  Hist.  Stirp.  Helv.  2:   203  (1768).] 

[LAPPAGO  Schreb.  Gen.  55  (1789).] 

Nazia  racemosa  (L.)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  780  (1891). 
Cenchrus  racemosus  L.  Sp.  PL  1049  (1753). 
Lappago  racemosa  Willd.  Sp.  PL  i  :   484  (1798). 
Growing  prostrate  in  the  sand,  along  the  beach  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay, 
the  spreading  plants  growing  comparatively  close  together.     Seen  at  only 
one  place  near  the  upper  end  of  the  Bay  at  sea  level. 
May  29  (1794). 

PASPALUM  L.  Syst.  Ed.  10,  2:  855  (1759). 
Paspalum  pubiflorum  Rupr.  ex  Galeotti,  Bull.  Acad.  Brux.   9:   237 

(1842). 

At  San  Antonio  in  cultivated  ground  it  was  rather  stout  and  inclined 
to  be  prostrate,  while  in  rich  shady  ground  along  Town  Creek  at  Kerr- 
ville it  grew  in  clumps  with  long,  spreading  ascending  stems,  two  or 
three  feet  long. 

San  Antonio,  Bexar  county,  May  5  (1699);  Kerrville,  Kerr  county, 
June  16  (1872). 


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Paspalum  setaceum  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i :   43  (1803). 
Paspalum pubescens  Muhl.  Gram.  92  (,1817). 
Paspalum  ciliatifolium  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i :   44  (1803). 
A  few  plants  were  found  along  the  railroad  at  Corpus  Christi,  and  at 
Flower  Bluff  in  sand,  at  sea  level.     This  is  the  P.  ciliatifolium. 
April  9  (1546). 

PANICUM  L.  Sp.  PL  55  (1753). 

Panicum  autumnale  Bosc.;  Spreng.  Syst.  i:   320  (1825). 
Panic um  fragile  Kunth,  Rev.  Gram,  i  :   36  (1829).  ? 
Panicum  divergens  Muhl.  Gram.  120  (1817)?  teste  Chapman. 

Rather  common  in  stony  limestone  ground  about  Kerrville,  especially 
along  the  river,  altitude  1630-1700  feet. 

May  14(1744). 
Panicum  colonum  L.  Syst.  Ed.  10,  105  (1784). 

Prostrate,  growing  in  depressions  at  Corpus  Christi,  which  in  wet 
weather  are  filled  with  water,  altitude  40  feet.  Seen  at  only  one  place, 
and  not  plentiful.  March  26  (1501).  Also  along  the  left  bank  of  the 
Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet,  on  flat  rocks  covered  with  a 
thin  layer  of  earth.  At  times  of  high  water  these  rocks  are  evidently 
submerged.  Prostrate,  rosette-like  in  habit,  the  culms  often  nearly  two 
feet  long.  Leaves  usually  marked  laterally  with  purplish  bands. 

June  27  (1923). 
Panicum  dichotomum  L.  Sp.  PI.  58  (1753).? 

Growing  in  dense  tufts  in  gravel  along  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe 
at  Kerrville. 

June  19  (1888). 
Panicum  fuscum  Swartz,  Prodr.  Veg.  Ind.  Occ.  23  (1783-87). 

A  handsome  yellowish-green  grass,  erect,  growing  in  slender  tufts. 
Noticed  only  in  cultivated  ground  at  San  Antonio,  altitude  600  feet,  and 
on  the  edges  of  fields  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1650  feet. 

May  5  (1698)';  type  locality,  Jamaica. 
Panicum  maximum,  Jacq.  Ic.  PI.  Rar    i  :  /.  ij  (1811-13). 

A  dense  clump  with  culms  about  four  feet  long,  growing  on  the  edge 
of  a  field  along  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1625  feet. 
Within  the  range  of  Coulter's  Manual  of  Western  Texas,  but  not  recorded 
in  that  work. 

June  2 1  (1898);  type  locality,  W.  Indies. 
Panicum  nitidum  Lam.  Encycl.  4:   748  (1797). 

Moist  places  in  limestone  ground  along  the  left  bank  of  the  Guada- 
lupe, at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet.  Seen  at  only  one  station.  Usually 


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solitary  in  growth  and  scattered.     Recorded  as    occurring  from  "  east- 
ern Texas  and  eastward  to  the  Atlantic." 

May  16  (1752). 
Panicum  obtusum  H.B.K.  Nov.  Gen.  i  :   98  (1815). 

Abundant  in  limestone  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1625-1650  feet;  grow- 
ing in  cultivated  fields,  waste  places  about  the  streets  and  in  yards. 

May  14  (1741);  type  locality,  Mexico,  near  Guanaxuato. 
Panicum  pedicellatum  Vasey,  Bull.   No.  8,  U.  S.  Dept.  Agric.  Div. 

Bot.  28  (1889). 

Common  on  stony  wooded  hillsides  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1625- 
1800  feet,  growing  in  scattered  tufts.  The  most  northern  station  ob- 
served by  myself  was  along  the  banks  of  Wolf  Creek,  fifteen  miles  north 
of  Kerrville  (No.  1726). 

May  15  (1636,  1736,  1766). 
Panicum  Hallii  Vasey,  Bull.  Torr.  Club,  n  :   61  (1884). 

Growing  in  gutters  at  Kerrville,  and  on  flat  exposed  rocks  on  the 
Guadalupe,  just  below  the  town;  altitude  1600-1650  feet.  At  Corpus 
Christi  it  was  found  in  a  sandy,  open  field.  This  plant  was  distributed 
as  P.  pro  life  rum. 

Corpus  Christi,  March  23  (1490);  Kerrville,  Kerr  county,  June  18 

(.883). 

Panicum  Reverchoni  Vasey,  Bull.  No.  8,  U.  S.  Dept.  Agric.  Div.  of 
of  Bot.  25  (1889). 

Very  little  seen,  and  apparently  not  plentiful  in  Kerr  county.  Grow- 
ing on  a  bank  along  the  roadside,  on  Town  Creek,  altitude  1625  feet. 

April  19  (1603). 
Panicum  sanguinale  L.  Sp.  PI.  57  (1753). 

Digitaria  sanguinalis  Scop.  Fl.  Cam.  Ed.  2,  I  :   52  (1772). 
Syntherisma praecox  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  76  (1788). 
Paspalum  sanguinale  Lam.  Tabl.  Encycl.  i  :    176  (1791). 
About  the  streets  of  Kerrville,  and  growing  very  luxuriantly  in  wet 
places  on  the  Guadalupe,  where  it  occurs  in  tangled  mats,  the  culms 
weak  and  reclining ;  altitude,  1600-1650  feet.    Altogether  much  stouter 
and  coarser  than  the  plant  found  in  waste  places  in  the  North. 

June  27  (1917). 
Panicum  scoparium  Lam.  Encycl.  4:   744  (1797).? 

Panicum  paudflorum  Ell.  Bot.  S.  C.  &  Ga.  i :    120  (1817). 
Growing  in  rich,  shaded  ground  along  Town  Creek,    at  Kerrville, 
altitude  1600  feet. 
May  19  (1759). 


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Panicum  filipes    Scribn.  n.  sp. 

(PLATE    I.) 

Culms  slender,  about  30  inches  high,  branched  at  the  base,  minutely 
bearded  at  the  nodes,  otherwise  smooth;  sheaths  smooth;  ligule 
reduced  to  a  minute  barbate  ring,  or  obsolete ;  leaf-blade  smooth, 
the  upper  one  on  the  flowering  culm  three  to  four  lines  wide,  and 
six  to  eight  inches  long,  those  of  the  sterile  shoots  one  to  two  lines 
wide,  and  five  inches  to  nearly  a  foot  long;  panicle  twelve  inches 
long,  the  few-flowered  capillary  branches  and  long  pedicels  spread- 
ing ;  spikelets  about  i  ^  lines  long,  ovate  acute ;  first  glume  broadly 
ovate  obtuse,  three-nerved,  about  one-half  the  length  of -the  second  ; 
second  and  third  glumes  nearly  equal,  acute ;  the  second  five  to 
seven-nerved,  the  third  seven  to  nine-nerved,  and  with  a  palea 
about  half  its  length ;  flowering  glume  nearly  elliptical,  obtuse,  very 
smooth  and  shining,  about  one-fourth  shorter  than  the  second  and 
third  glumes.  A  slender,  erect  or  ascending,  smooth  perennial  (?), 
with  long,  narrow  leaves,  and  ample  capillary  panicles.  Descrip- 
tion drawn  from  single  specimen. 
Growing  in  rich  shaded  ground  in  the  upper  part  of  the  "Arroyo,"  at 

Corpus  Christi,  altitude  30  feet.     Scarce. 
May  31  (1809). 

CHAMAERAPHIS  R.  Br.  Prodr.  Fl.  Nov.  Holl.  i  :  193  (1810). 

[SETARIA  Beauv.  Agrost.  113  (1812),  notAch.  1798.] 
Chamaeraphis  setosa  (Swartz)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PI.   768  (1891). 
Panicum  setosum  Swartz,  Prodr.  22  (1783-87). 
Setaria  setosa  Beauv.  Agrost.  51  (1812). 

In  a  cultivated  field  along  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  altitude 
1625  feet.  Called  "  wild  millet  "  by  the  farmers.  Not  observed  at  any 
other  place. 

June  21  (1897). 

Chamaeraphis  glauca  (L. )  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  767  (1891). 
Panicum  glaucum  L.  Sp.  PL  56  (1753). 
Setaria  glauca  Beauv.  Agrost.  51  (1812). 

A  stout  form  with  perennial  root,  found  sparingly  in  gravelly  places 
along  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet.  Solitary,  and 
scattered  at  long  intervals. 

June  19  (1889). 

Chamaeraphis  caudata  (Lam.)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL   769  (1891). 
Panicum  caudatum  Lam.  Tabl.  Encycl.  i  :    171  (1791). 


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Setaria  caudata  R.  &  S.  Syst.  Veg.  2 :   495  (1817). 
Found  sparingly  on  a  grass  covered  knoll,  at  the  "  Blind"  Oso,  about 
100  yards  from  the  beach. 
March  21  (1480). 

CENCHRUS  L.  Sp.  PL  1049  (i?53)- 
Cenchrus  tribuloides  L.  Sp.  PI.  1050  (1753). 

Cenchrus  Carolinianus  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  79  (1788),  teste  Pursh. 
In  dry,  open  sandy  ground  on  the  plateau  at  Corpus  Christi,  where  it 
was  plentiful.     A  slender  prostrate  form  very  different  from  our  northern 
plant. 

March  23  (1392). 

ZIZANIOPSIS    Doell  et  Aschers.  in  Mart.  Fl.  Bras.  2;   Part  2,  12 

(1871). 

Zizaniopsis  miliacea  (Michx.)  Doell  et  Aschers.;  Baill.  Hist.  PL  12: 
293  (1893). 

Zizania  miliacea  Michx.  FL  Bor.  Am.  i :  74  (1803). 
Growing  on  the  edge  of  the  San  Antonio  in  shallow  water,  at  San 
Antonio,  altitude  600  feet.     Two  clumps  of  it  observed. 
,   May  5  (1710). 

PHALARIS  L.  Sp.  PL  54  (1753)- 
Phalaris  Caroliniana  Walt.  FL  Car.  74  (1788),  fide  Munro. 

Phalaris  intermedia  Bosc.;  Poir.  in  Lam.  Encycl.  Suppl.  i  :   300 

(1810). 

Phalaris  microstachya  DC.  Cat.  Hort.  Monsp.  131  (1813). 
Phalaris  Americana  Ell.  Bot.  S.  C.  and  Ga.  i  :  101  (1817). 
Growing  along  the  railroad  tracks,  near  Gregory,  San  Patricio  county, 
altitude  35  feet,  and  at  San  Antonio,  altitude  600  feet. 
April  17  (1578) ;  type  locality,  Carolina. 

ARISTIDAL.  Sp.  PL  82(1753). 
Aristida  purpurea  Nutt.  Trans.  Am  Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  5  :  145  (1837). 

Growing  about  ant  hills  in  open  sandy  pasture  land,  near  Gregory,  San 
Patricio  county,  altitude  35  feet.  Not  seen  except  where  ants  had  dis- 
turbed the  ground. 

April  14  (1579). 

LIMNODEA  Dewey,  Cont.  U.  S.  Nat.  Herb.  2  :  518'  (1894). 
Limnodea  Arkansana  (Nutt.)  Dewey,  Cont.  U.  S.  Nat.  Herb.  2 : 
518  (1894). 


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Greenia  Arkansana  Nutt.  Trans.  Am.  Phil.  Soc.(II.)  5  :  142  (1837), 

not  W.  &  Am. 
Thurberia  Arkansana  Benth.  in  Vasey,  Descr.  Cat.  Gr.  U.  S.  22 

(1*85). 

Plentiful  along  railroad  tracks  near  Gregory,  San  Patricio  county,  alti- 
tude 35  feet. 

April  14  (1577). 

AGROSTIS  L.  Sp.  PL  6  (1753)- 
[TRICODIUM  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i :   41  (1803).] 
Agrostis  vertidllata  Vill.  Prosp.  16  (1779). 

In  wet  limestone  soil,  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville,  the 
stalks  matted  together;  altitude  1600  feet. 
May  14  (1742)  ;  type  locality,  Europe. 

TRISETUM  Pers.    Syn.  PI.  i  :   97  (1805). 

Trisetum  interruptum  Buckley,  Proc.  Acad.  Phila.  100  (1862). 
Plentiful  but  scattered,  near  the  shores  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay. 
March  21  (1464). 

CHLORIS  Swartz,  Prod.  Veg.  Ind.  Occ.  25  (1788). 

Chloris  cucullata  Bisch.  in  Ann.  Sc.  Nat.  (III.)  19:   357  (1853). 

Scattered  in  low,  open  land  along  Corpus  Christi  Bay ;  altitude,  sea 
level  to  35  feet. 

March  14  (1449). 
Chloris  verticillata  Nutt.  Trans.  Am.  Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  5  :   150  (1837). 

Plentiful  in  low,  open  pasture  land  near  Gregory,  San  Patricio  county, 
altitude  35  feet. 

April  14  (1580). 

On  stony  banks  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  Kerr  county,  altitude 
1625  feet,  but  not  plentiful. 

May  19  (1767);  type  locality,  Arkansas  river. 
Chloris  verticillata  intermedia  Vasey,  Cont,  U.  S.  Nat.  Herb.  2  : 

528  (1894). 

In  a  grassy  meadow  at  the  "Blind"  Oso,  nine  miles  southeast  of 
Corpus  Christi.     Growing  in  rather  thick  clumps. 

March  21  (1471). 

BOUTELOUA  Lag.  in  Varied.  Cienc.  (II.)  4  :    134  (1805). 
Bouteloua  hirsuta  Lag.  Varied.  Cienc.  2:  Part  4,  141  (1805). 


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Chondrosium  hirta  H.B.K.  Nov.  Gen.  i:    176  (1815). 

On  stony  limestone  hillsides  in  pasture  land  at  Kerrville,  Kerr  county, 
altitude  1800  feet.     Scattered,  but  rather  plentiful. 

June  18  (1878). 
Bouteloua  ramosa  Scribn.  111.  N.  A.  Gr.  i  :   Part  i,  44  (1890). 

On  the  rocky  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville,  Kerr  county, 
growing  in  scattered  clumps,  altitude  1630  feet. 

May  19  (1762). 
Bouteloua  Texana  S.  Watson,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  18  :   196  (1883). 

In  a  grassy  meadow  at  the  "  Blind"  Oso.     Plentiful;  seen  also  at  Cor- 
pus Christi  and  at  Kerrville. 

March  21  (1485). 

DAC'TYLOCTENIUM  Willd.  Enum.  Hort.  Berol.  1029  (1809). 

Dactyloctenium  ,/Egyptiacum  (L.)  Willd.  Enum.  Hort.  Berol.  1029 

(1809). 

Cynosurus  sEgyptiaca  L.  Sp.  PL  72  (1753). 
In  cultivated  ground  at  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  40  feet. 
May  30  (1797)  ;   type  locality,  Africa. 

LEPTOCHLOA  Beauv.  Agrost.  71,  /.  15,  f.  i  (1812). 
Leptochloa  mucronata  (Michx.)  Kunth.  Rev.  Gram.  1:91  (1835). 

Elusine  mucronata  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i :   65  (1803). 
In  loose  rich  ground   on  the  banks  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville, 
altitude  1600  feet. 

June  18  (1884);  type  locality,  Illinois. 

BULBILIS  Raf.  Am.  Month.  Mag.  190  (1819). 
Bulbilis  dactyloides  (Nutt.)  Raf.  Am.  Month.  Mag.  190  (1819). 
Sesleria  dactyloides  Nutt.  Gen.  i  :   65  (1818). 
Buchloe  dactyloides  Engelm.  Trans.   St.  Louis  Acad.  Sci.    i :   432 

/.  12  (1859). 

Abundant  about  Corpus  Christi  in  open  pasture  land,  sea  level  to  40 
feet. 

March  21  (1447)  ;  type  locality,  plains  of  the  Missouri. 

SIEGLINGIA  Bernh.  Syst.  Verz.  Pfl.  Erf  40  (1800). 
[TRIODIA  R.  Br.  Prodr.  Fl.  Nov.   Holl.  i  :    182  (1810).] 

[TRICUSPIS  Beauv.  Agrost.  77,  /.  75.  f.  12.  (1812).] 
Sieglingia  acuminata  (Munro)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  789  (1891). 


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Tricuspis  acuminata  Munro;  Vasey,  111.  N.   A.  Gr.  i  :  Part  2,  32 
(1891). 

In  dry,  stony  limestone  ground  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1650-1700  feet. 
Usually  growing  in  bunches. 

April  23  (1637). 
Sieglingia  congesta  Dewey,  Cont.  U.  S.  Nat.  Herb.  2 :   538  (1894). 

Growing  on  the  edge  of  depressions  in  the  stiff,  black  "  waxy  land  " 
between  Corpus  Christi  and  the  Oso,  altitude  35  feet.  Prostrate,  not 
plentiful. 

March  21  (1486).     From  type  locality.     Type  in  U.  S.  Nat.  Herb. 

ERAGROSTIS  Beauv.  Agrost.  70,  /.  14,  f.  n  (1812). 

Eragrostis  lugens  Nees,  Agrost.  Bras.  507  (1829). 

On  the  stony  edge  of  the  bluff  overlooking  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville. 
Only  a  few  clumps  seen,  altitude  1650  feet. 

May  14  (1745)  ;  type  locality,  South  America. 
Eragrostis  capillaris  (L.)  Nees,  Agrost.  Bras.  505  (1829). 

Poa  capillaris  L.  Sp.  PI.  68  (1753). 

On  the  edge  of  a  water  hole  at  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  40  feet.     Scarce. 
May  30  (1803) ;  type  locality,  Virginia. 

Eragrostis  hypnoides  (Lam.)  B.  S.  P.  Prel.  Cat.  N.  Y.  69  (1888). 
Poa  hypnoides  Lam.  Tabl.  Encycl.  i  :  185  (1791). 
Poa  reptans  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i  :  69  (1803). 
Eragostis  reptans  Nees,  Agrost.  Bras.  514  (1829). 
Creeping  and  forming  matted  masses  in  and  on  the  edges  of  dried  up 
water  holes  at  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  40  feet. 

March  17  (1455). 
Eragrostis  interrupta  (Nutt.)  Trelease. 

Poa  interrupta  Nutt.  Trans.  Am.  Phil.  Soc.  (II.')  5:    146  (1837). 
Eragrostis  oxylepis  Torr.  Pac.   R.  R.  Rep.  (Whipple  Exped.)   4: 

156(1857). 

A  few  scattered  plants  in  open  grassy  pasture  lands,  near  Gregory, 
San  Patricio  county,  April  14  (1581),  35  feet,  and  on  the  edge  of  a 
water  hole  at  Corpus  Christi  in  black  waxy  land,  altitude  40  feet. 

May  30  (1802);  type  locality,  Arkansas. 
Eragrostis  major  Host.  Gram.  Austr.  4:   14,  /.  24  (1809). 
Briza  Eragrostis  L.  Sp.  PI.  70  (1853). 
Eragrostis  poaeoides  var.  megastachya  A.  Gray,  Man.  Ed.  5,  631 

(1867). 
Eragrostis  Eragrostis  MacM.  Met.  Minn.  75  (1892),  not  Karst. 


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Prostrate,  growing  in  yards  in  the  shell  deposit  on  the  beach  at  Cor- 
pus Christi.     May  30  (1783). 

At  Kerrville,  on  the  banks  of  the  Guadalupe ;  growing  in  the  gravel 
near  the  water's  edge,  altitude  1600  feet,  was  a  more  robust  form. 

June  18  (1882);  type  locality,  Europe. 

Eragrostis  Eragrostis  (L.)  Karst.  Deutsche  Fl.  389  (1880-83). 
Poa  Eragrostis  L.  Sp.  PI.  68  (1753). 
Eragrostis poaeoides  Beauv.  Agrost.  162  (1812).     . 
Eragrostis  minor  Host.  Fl.  Austr.  i  :    135  (1827). 
Growing   among   gravel  along  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville ;   altitude 
1600  feet.     Scattered,  but  rather  plentiful ;  only  near  the  water's  edge. 
June  18  (1879);  tvPe  locality,  Italy. 

MELICA  L.  Sp.  PL  66  (1753). 
Melica  diffusa  Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  77  (1814).      . 
Melica  altissima  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  78  (1788),  not  L. 
Melica  mutica  var.  diffusa  A.  Gray,  Man.  Ed.  5,  626  (1867). 
Growing  in  clumps  on  moist  limestone  ledges  along  the  Guadalupe  at 
Kerrville,  altitude  1625  ^eet- 

April  27  (1662)  ;  type  locality,  Virginia  and  Carolina. 

UNIOLA,  L.  Sp.  PL  71  (1753). 
Uniola  paniculata   L.  Sp.  PL  71  (1753). 

Uniola  maritima  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  1:71  (1803). 
On  the  Gulf  coast  of  Mustang  Island  at  Rope's  Pass,  growing  in  loose 
sand  at  sea  level.     Culms  tall  and  stout. 
May  28  (i783a);  type  locality,  Carolina. 

FESTUCA  L.  Sp.  PL  73  (1753). 
Festuca  octoflora  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  81  (1788). 

Festuca  bromoides  Michx  FL  Bor  Am.  i  :  66  (1803). 
Fesiuca  tenella  Willd.  Enum.  i  :  113  (1809). 

A  common  grass  in  the  region  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay,  often  growing  in 
the  sand  along  the  Beach. 

April  14  (1576);  type  locality,  Carolina. 

BROMUS  L.  Sp.  PL  76  (1753). 
[CERATACHLOA  Beauv.  Agrost.  75  (1812).] 

Bromus  unioloides  (Willd.)  H.  B.  K.  Nov.  Gen.  i  :  151  (1815). 
Festuca  unioloides  Willd.  Hort.  Berol.  i  :  3,  t.  3  (1806). 
Bromus  Willdenowii  Kunth,  Rev.  Gram  i:  134  (1829-35). 
Bromus  Schraderi  Kunth,  Enum.  i  :  416  (1833). 


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Prostrate  and  spreading,  in  sand  along  and  near  the  beach  of  Corpus 
Christi  Bay.     Seen  at  two  stations,  both  at  a  distance  from  dwellings. 
March  24  (1497). 

ELYMUS  L.  Sp.  PL  83  (1753)- 
Elymus  Canadensis  L.  Sp.  PI.  83  (1753). 

Elymus  Philqjelphicus  L.  Sp.  PI.  Ed.  2,  122  (1762). 
In  rich,  moist,  shady  ground  on  the  banks  of  the  San  Antonio,  at  San 
Antonio,  May  5  (1712).     At  Kerrville,  on  the  stony  limestone  banks  of 
the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1625  feet,  occurs  a  stouter  form. 
May  19  (1763). 

HORDEUM  L.  Sp.  PL  84  (1753). 
Hordeum  pusillum  Nutt.  Gen.  i :  87  £1818). 

Common  in  sand  along  the  beach  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay,  especially 
southeast  of  the  town. 

March  27  (1504). 

CYPERACEAE. 

CYPERUS  L.  Sp.  PL  44  (1753). 
Cyperus  acuminatus  Torr.  &  Hook.  Ann.  Lye.  N.  Y.  3 :  435  (1836). 

In  moist  ground  on  the  edge  of  a  water  hole  at  Corpus  Christi,  alti- 
tude 40  feet.     Plants  few  and  scattered. 

May  30  (1807). 

Cyperus  aristatus  Rottb.  Descr.  et  Icon.  23,  /.  6,f.  i  (1773). 
Cyperus  inflexus  Muhl.  Gram.  16  (1817). 
Cyperus  uncinatus  Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  50  (1814),  not  Poir. 

In  low,  wet  ground  along  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  altitude   1600 
feet.     Only  a  few  plants  seen. 

June  28  (1924). 
Cyperus  ferax  Vahl.  Enum.  2  :  357  (1806). 

In  moist  gravel  along  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe   at    Kerrville, 
altitude  1 600  feet.     Usually  freely  branching  from  the  base,  forming  tufts. 

July  2  (1934). 

ELEOCHARIS  R.  Br.  Prodr.  FL  Nov.  Holl.  i  :  224(1810). 

Eleocharis    capitata   (L.)   R.    Br.  Prodr.  FL  Nov.    Holl.   i :    225 
(1810). 

Scirpus  capitatus  L.  Sp.  PL  48  (1753). 

Eleocharis  dispar  E.  J.  Hill,  Coult.  Bot.  Gaz.  7  :  3  (1882). 


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On  moist  muddy  rocks  along  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  altitude 
1600  feet.  Growing  in  round  tufts,  usually  prostrate,  but  some  of  the 
larger  plants  ascending.  Quite  variable  in  size,  the  stems  ranging  from 
two  to  six  or  seven  inches  in  length. 

June  13  (1851). 

DICHROMENA  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i  :  37  (1803). 

Dichromena    colorata    (L.)   A.  S.  Hitchcock,  4th  Kept.  Mo.  Bot. 
Gard.  141  (1893). 

Schoemis  coloratus  L.  Sp.  PL  43   (1753). 
Scirpus  cephalotes  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  71  (1788). 
Dichromena  leucocephala  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i  :  37  (1803). 
Dichromena  cephalotes  Britton,  Bull.  Torr.  Club.  15  :  100  (1888). 
In  stiff  moist  ground  on  the  banks  of  the  Guadalupe  at    Kerrville, 
growing  in  patches,  altitude  1600  feet. 

June  19  (1886). 
Dichromena  nivea  Boeckl. 

Dichromena  Reverchoni  S.  H.  Wright. 

Growing  in  thick  tufts  in  wet  places  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Gaudalupe, 
at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet.      Abundant  at  this  one  station,  but  not 
observed  elsewhere.     Lack  of  time  has  prevented  the  obtaining  of  the 
proper  citations  for  this  species. 
May  23  (1778). 

FUIRENA  Rottb.  Descr.  et  Ic.  70,  /.  19,  f.  3  (1773). 

Fuirena  simplex  Vahl.  Enum.  2  :   384  (1806). 

Fuirena  squarrosa  Torr.   Ann.   Lye.   N.   Y.  2:    252  (1828),   not 

Michx. 
Fuirena  squarrosa  var.  aristatula  Torr.  Ann.  Lye.  N.  Y.  3 :    291 

(1836). 

In  wet  gravel  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville.     Plants 
tall  and  stout,  growing  in  clumps;  altitude  1600  feet. 
July  2  (1937). 

CLADIUM  P.  Br.  Civ.  and  Nat.  Hist.  Jam.  114  (1756). 

Cladium  effusum  Torr.  Ann.  Lye.  N.  Y.  3:   374  (1836). 

In  wet  ground  on  both  banks  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  but  not 
abundant;  altitude  1600  feet. 

June  20  (1892). 


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BROMELIACEAE. 

TILLANDSIA  L.  Sp.  PL  286  (1753).* 

Tillandsia  recurvata  L.  Sp.  PL  Ed.  2,  410  (1762). 

Collected  on  chapparral  at  Corpus  Christi,  where  it  is  found  occa- 
sionally. Near  the  mouth  of  the  Nueces  it  is  quite  plentiful  on  trees, 
Querciis,  Celtis,  etc.  Also  observed  on  live  oaks  between  Corpus 
Christi  and  Kenedy,  and  on  trees  at  Kerrville,  on  the  upper  Guadalupe. 
Usually  grows  in  ball-like  masses. 

March  6  (1400)  ;  type  locality,  Jamaica. 


COMMELINACEAE. 

COMMELINA  L.  Sp.  PL  40  (1753). 

Commelina  Virginiana  L.  Sp.  PL  Ed.  2,  61  (1762). 

Commelina  angustifolia  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  1 :   24  (1803). 

In  sandy,  cultivated  fields  at  the  Oso ;  flowers  greenish  blue.  Seen 
also  at  Corpus  Christi  and  Kerrville. 

April  12  (1555). 

TRADESCANTIA  L.  Sp.  PL  288  (1753). 
Tradescantia  micrantha  Torr.  Mex.  Bound.  Surv.  2:   224  (1859). 

Near  the  Oso,  Nueces  county,  growing  among  clumps  of  low  tangled 
bushes,  altitude  25  feet.  Owing  to  the  difficulty  in  collecting  it,  only  a 
few  specimens  were  obtained,  although  it  is  rather  plentiful.  The  flowers 
are  small,  rose  color,  apparently  open  only  in  the  forenoon.  The  speci- 
mens were  collected  between  9  and  10  A.  M.,  but  when  I  returned  in  the 
afternoon  not  a  single  open  flower  could  be  seen. 

April  12  (1564)  ;  type  locality,  near  the  mouth  of  the  Rio  Grande. 
Tradescantia 

On  the  plateau  above  Corpus  Christi  Bay,  a  short  distance  southeast 
of  the  town,  altitude  40  feet,  growing  among  chapparral,  in  rich  black 
land.  Flowers  comparatively  small,  pale  pink.  This  seems  to  be  Trad- 
escantia leiandra  var.  brevifolia  Torr.,  and  the  var.  (?)  uvata  of  Coul- 
ter. It  is  certainly  specifically  distinct  from  leiandra,  but  the  "  caule 

*  71  usneoides  L.  reported  in  the  Manual  of  Western  Texas  as  occurring  in 
Southern  Texas,  but  not  north  of  the  mouth  of  the  Pecos,  was  seen  in  abundance 
along  the  San  Antonio  and  Aransas  Pass  R.  R.  quite  a  distance  north  of  the  Colorado. 
At  the  crossing  of  the  Colorado  it  is  found'in  great  profusion. 


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prostrate  "  of  Torrey's  description  does  not  fit,  as  this  plant  is  ascending. 
It  is  the   Commelina  spedosa  Buckley,   Proc.   Acad.  Phila.   4    (1862), 
collected  by  Buckley  at  Corpus  Christi. 
March  10  (1447). 

TINANTIA  Scheidw  Allgem.  Gartenzeit.  7:   365  (1839). 

Tinantia  anomala  (Torr.)  Clarke. 

Tradescantia  anomala  Torr.  Mex.  Bound.  Surv.  2;    225  (1859). 

In  rich  shady  soil  on  Town  Creek  and  along  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerr- 
ville,  altitude  1625  feet.  Stems  erect,  but  weak,  one  to  two  feet  high; 
flowers  deep  blue. 

May  3  (1693)  ;  type  locality,  Austin  and  San  Antonia. 


JUNCACEAE. 

JUNCUS  L.Sp.  PL  325(1753). 
Juncus  filipendulus  Buckley,  Proc.  Acad.  Phila.  1862,  8  (1859). 

Juncus  leptocaulis  T.  &  G.  in  Engelm.  Trans.  St.  Louis  Acad.  2  : 

454  (1866). 

On  moist  rocks  covered  with  a  thin  deposit  of  mud  on  the  right  bank 
of  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1600  feet.  Plants  scattered  and  not  plentiful. 
Quite  an  extension  of  the  range  of  this  rather  rare  Juncus.  "Appar- 
ently confined  in  Texas  to  the  northern  portion  of  the  State." — Man.  of 
W.  Texas,  451. 

June  13  (1852). 
Juncus  marginatus  setosus  Coville,  Proc.  Biol.  Soc.  Wash.  8:  124 

(1893). 

Very  plentiful  in  dry  soil  at  Corpus  Christi,  near  the  "Arroyo,"  alti- 
tude 40  feet.  Not  previously  known  to  occur  in  the  coast  region. 

May  30  (1796). 
Juncus  nodosus  Texanus  Engelm.  Trans.  St.  Louis  Acad.  2:   471 

(1868). 

Growing  in  dense  matted  clumps  in  mud  on  the  left  bank  of  the 
Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet.  The  roots  were  so  inter- 
laced and  tangled  that  upon  taking  hold  of  a  bunch  a  slight  pull  brought 
away  a  large  section  of  the  thin  layer  of  mud,  laying  bare  the  rocks. 

July  2  (1936). 
Juncus  tenuis  Willd.  Sp.  PL  2:   214  (1799). 

Two  or  three  plants  were  found  mixed  with  J.  filipendulus.  Appar- 
ently rare  in  the  region  of  Kerrville,  as  no  others  were  seen. 


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LILIACEAE. 

ALLIUM  L.  Sp.  PI.  294  (1753). 

Allium  mutabile  Michx.  Fl  Bor.  Am.  i  :    195  (1803). 

In  rich  stony  limestone  soil  along  Bear  Creek,  Kerr  county,  altitude 
1900  feet.  Scape  rather  stout,  flowers  white. 

April  30  (1684). 
Allium  Nuttallii  S.  Wats.  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  14:   227  (1879). 

Abundant  in  stony  limestone  ground  about  Kerrville,  usually  near 
bushes,  altitude  1600-1800  feet.  Found  at  the  lowest  elevations  along 
the  Guadalupe  and  on  hillsides.  Flowers  rose  color. 

April  26  (1659). 

NOTHOSCORDUM  Kunth,  Enum.  4:' 457  (1843). 

Nothoscordum  ornithogaloides  (Walt.)  Kunth,  4:  460  (1843). 
Allium  ornithogaloides-VfaXt.  Fl.  Car.  121  (1788). 
Allium  striatum  Jacq.  Coll.  Suppl.  51  (1796). 
Nothoscordttm  strialum  Kunth,  Enum.  4:   459  (1843). 
Common,  but  scattered,  in  low  dry  ground  at  Corpus  Christi  and  sur- 
rounding country.     Seen  also  at  Kerrville. 
March  10  (1397);  type  locality,  Carolina. 

YUCCAL.Sp.  PI.  319(1753). 

Yucca  glauca  stricta  (Sims)  Trelease,  Fourth  Ann.  Rep.  Mo.  Bot. 
Card.  206  (1893). 

Yucca  stricta  Sims,  Bot.  Mag.  /.  2222  (1821). 

Yucca  angustifolia  var.  mollis  Engelm.  Trans.  St.  Louis  Acad.  3 : 

50  (1873)- 

At  two  stations  near  Kerrville,  on  Town  Creek,  altitude  1650  feet. 
A  low  plant  15  inches  to  3  feet  high;  leaves  short,  sparingly  filament- 
ous; scape  rather  densely  flowered;  flowers  greenish  white,  tinged 
slightly  with  dull  purple,  especially  on  the  outside.  It  had  all  the  ap- 
pearance of  an  introduced  plant,  growing  only  in  cultivated  fields. 

May  3  (1689) :   type  locality,  Carolina. 
Yucca  rupicola  Scheele,  Linnsea,  23:   143  (1850). 

On  stony  limestone  hilltops  near  Kerrville,  not  common,  altitude  1900 
feet.  The  flowers  on  all  the  plants  noticed  were  pure  white,  not  green- 
ish-white. Not  seen  in  fruit. 

May  21  (1775) ;  type  locality,  New  Braunfels, 


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Yucca  Treculeana  Carr.  Rev.  Hort.  7  :  280  (1858). 

Individual  plants  6-10  feet  high;  occasional  in  the  chapparral  about 
Corpus  Christi.  Leaves  dark  green,  sparingly  filamentous  near  the  base. 
A  species  of  light  brown  wasp,  flies,  and  b  ags  were  observed  on  and  in 
the  flowers.  Through  carelessness,  the  leaves  became  spoiled  and  unfit 
for  specimens. 

DASYLIRION  Zucc.  in  Otto  &  Dietr.  Allg.  Gartenz.  6  :  258  (1838). 
Dasylirion  Texanum  Scheele,  Linnaea,  23  :  140  (1850). 

A  single  plant  found  in  bloom  near  the  summit  of  a  conical  terraced 
hill  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1900  feet. 

June  30  (1929)  •  type  locality,  New  Braunfels. 

SCHOENOCAULON  A.  Gray,  Ann.  Lye.  Nat.  Hist.  N.  Y.  4 :  127 

(1837). 
Schoenocaulon  Texanum  Scheele,  25  :   262  (1852). 

Schoenocaulon  Drummondii  A.  Gray,  Bot.    Beechy,   388  (1841), 

name  only. 

Very  common  on  the  dry  limestone  hills  about  Kerrville,  ranging  from 
the  lowest  elevations  along  the  Guadalupe  and  Town  Creek  to  near  the 
summits  of  the  hills,  1600-1900  feet. 

April  25  (1626);  type  locality,  New  Braunfels. 

SMILACEAE. 

SMILAX  L.  Sp.  PI.  1028  (1753). 
Smilax  Bona-Nox  L.  Sp.  PI.  1030  (1753). 

Smilax  tamnoides  A.  Gray,  Man.  485  (1848),  not  L. 
Climbing  over  bushes  along  Town  Creek,  altitude  1650  feet. 
April  28  (1674). 
Smilax  rotundifolia  L.  Sp.  PL  1030  (1753). 

Smilax  caduca  L.  Sp.  PI.  1030  (1753). 

Climbing  high  over  bushes  and  trees  along  Bear  Creek,  Kerr  county, 
altitude  1800  feet. 
April  30  (1679). 

AMARYLLIDACEAE. 

COOPERIA  Herb.  Bot.  Reg.  /.  1833  (1836). 
Cooperia  Drummondii  Herb.  Bot.  Reg.  /.  1833  (l836)- 
In   dry   open   ground  at  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  10  feet.     Flowers 


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white,  tinged  with  dull  purple  on  the  outside.     Observed  in  dry  ground 
along  the  Guadalupe  near  Kerrville. 

June  6  (1826). 
Cooperia  pedunculata  Herb.  Amaryll.  179,  /.  42,  f.  3-5  (1837). 

On  stony  slopes  along  the  Guadalupe,  usually  in  rich  shaded  ground, 
altitude  1625  feet.  Outside  of  perianth  more  purple  marked  than  C. 
Drummondii,  the  tube  much  longer. 

April  19  (1611). 

AGAVE  L.  Sp.  PI.  323(1753)- 

Agave  maculata  Regel,  Ind.  Sem.  Hort.  Petrop.  16:   (1856). 

Common  about  Corpus  Christi.  Flowers  purplish  green  on  all  the 
specimens  noticed.  One  of  the  "rattlesnake  plants."  The  root  or 
rather  crown  is  said  to  be  an  antidote  for  snake  bites. 

June  2  (1815). 


IRIDACEAE. 

CALYDOREA  Herb,  in  Lindl.  Bot.  Reg.  Misc.  85  (1843). 

Calydorea  Texana  (Herb.)  Baker,  Journ.  Bot.  14:   189  (1876). 
Gelasine?  Texana  Herb.  Bot.  Mag.  /.  J/7?  (1840). 

Collected  by  Drummond,  Galveston  Bay,  and  apparently  not  since 
found.  Scattered,  but  not  uncommon  in  hard  dry  ground  about  Corpus 
Christi  and  along  Nueces  Bay.  The  showy  blue  flowers  are  very  deli- 
cate, and  although  a  number  of  plants  were  collected,  only  four  or  five 
were  fit  for  specimens  by  the  time  they  were  brought  in. 

March  8  (1403);  type  locality,  Texas. 

SISYRINCHIUM  L.  Sp.  PI.  954  (1753). 

Sisyrinchium  Bermudianum  L.  Sp.  PI.  954  (1753). 

Sisyrinchium  angustifolium  Mill.  Diet.  Ed.  8  (1768). 

Sisyrinchium  anceps  Cav.  Diss.  6:   345,  /.  190,  f.  2  (1788). 

Sisyrinchium  gramineum  Curtis,  Bot.  Mag   /.  4.64.  (1799). 

Sisyrinchium  mucronatum  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2  :  33  (1803). 
In  sand  near  the  Oso,  growing  in  tufts,  flowers  large.  Sea  level. 
April  12  (1552). 


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CANNACEAE. 

CANNAL.  Sp.  PL  i  (1753). 

Canna  Indica  L.  Sp.  PL  i  (1753). 

In  low  ground  along  the  San  Antonio  at  San  Antonio.     Stems  5-6 
feet  high  ;  altitude,  600  feet. 

June  9  (1839);  type  locality,  tropics  of  both  continents. 

JUGLANDACEAE. 

JUGLANS  L.  Sp.  PL  997  (1753)- 
Juglans  nigra  L.  Sp.  PL  997  (1753)- 

A  few  trees  were  noticed  at  San  Antonio  near  theS.  P.  bridge,  altitude 
600  feet. 
Juglans  rupestris  Engelm.  in  Torr.  Sitgr.  Rep.  171,  /.  75(1853). 

A  bush  or  small  spreading  tree,  very  common  in  low  ground  along  the 
Guadalupe,  altitude  1600  feet. 

April  19  flower,  July  2  fruit  (1615)  ;  type  locality,  New  Mexico. 

HICORIA  Raf.  Med.  Rep.  (II.)  5  :   352  (1808). 

[HicoRius  Raf.  Fl.  Lud.  109  (1817).] 

[CARYA  Nutt.  Gen.  2  :   221  (1818).] 

Hicoria  Pecan  (Marsh.)  Britton,  Bull.  Torr.  Club,   15  :   282  (1888). 
Juglans  Pecan  Marsh.  Arb.  Am.  69  (1785). 

Juglans  Illinoiensis  Wang.  Beitr.  Holz.  Am.  54,  /.  i&,  f.  43  (1787). 
Carya  olivaeformis  Nutt.  Gen.  2  :    221(1818). 

In  a  wooded  tract  along  the  S.  P.  R.  R.  at  San  Antonio,  several  large 
trees  were  seen  in  flower,  altitude  600  feet. 
April  17  (1589). 

SALICACEAE. 

SALIX  L.  Sp.  PL  1015  (1753). 
Salix  nigra  Marsh.  Arb.  Am.  139  (1785). 

Occurring  as  a  bush,  or  slender  tree  25  feet  high,  along  the  Guadalupe, 
altitude  1600  feet.     Typical. 

April  19  (1621^. 
Salix  nigra  longipes  forma  venulosa  And.  Monog.  Sal.  22  (1867).* 

*Cont.  U.  S.  Nat.  Herb.  4 :  ^99  (1893),  as  ^-  nigra  venulosa. 


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Two  forms  of  this  willow  were  collected,  one  in  flower  (1643),  April 
24,  about  a  mile  and  a  half  below  Kerrville,  near  the  mouth  of  a  tribu- 
tary of  the  Guadalupe,  which  empties  from  the  right  bank.  The  speci- 
mens were  from  a  slender  bush  or  clump  of  bushes  about  10  feet  high. 
The  leaves  are  comparatively  short  and  broad  in  proportion,  very  white 
underneath.  The  othtr,  collected  on  the  right  bank  of  the  Guadalupe, 
about  a  mile  below  Kerrville,  was  a  branching  bush  10-15  ^eet  m§n>  m 
fruit  (1902),  June  22.  The  leaves  are  longer  and  narrower,  more  like 
S.  nigra,  light  green,  shining,  and  less  whitened  beneath;  altitude  1600 
feet. 

Type  locality,  "in  Nova  Mexico." 

FAGACEAE. 

QUERCUS  L.  Sp.  PI.  994  (i753)- 
Quercus  cinerea  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am..  197  (1803). 

A  bush  about  7  feet  high  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerr- 
ville, on  a  moist  limestone  ledge.  The  leaves  seem  to  be  deciduous,  as 
there  were  no  signs  of  old  ones.  Apparently  not  recorded  from  so  far 
south  and  west,  its  range  given  as  "  sandy  barrens,  extending  from  the 
Gulf  States  to  the  valley  of  the  Brazos." 

April  19  (1616)  ;  type  locality,  Carolina  and  Georgia. 
Quercus  coccinea  Wang.  Am.  44,  t.  4,f.  9  (1789). 

Quercus  rubra  var.  /?  L.  Sp.  PI.  Ed.  2,  1414  (1763). 

Occurring  as  a  small  spreading  tree  along  the  Guadalupe  and  its  tribu- 
taries about  Kerrville,  altitude  1650  feet. 

April  19  (1639). 

Quercus  Virginiana  Mill.  Gard.  Diet.  Ed.  8,  No.  16  (1/68). 
Quercus  virens  Ait.  Hort.  Kew.  3:   356  (1789). 

Occurring  as  straggling  bushes  6-8  feet  high  at  Flower  Bluff,  near  the 
Gulf  coast,  altitude  15  feet. 

April  9  (1542). 

ULMACEAE. 

CELTISL.  Sp.  PI.  1043(1753)- 
Celtis  occidentalis  L.  Sp.  PI.  1044  (1753). 

A  small  tree  in  the  region  of  Corpus  Christi,  along  Nueces  Bay,  at 
sea  level.  At  San  Antonio  it  often  occurs  as  a  large  spreading  tree  with 
rough,  corky  bark  and  thick  coriaceous  leaves,  whitened  beneath. 

April  17  (1587) ;  type  locality,  Virginia. 


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Celtis  Mississippiensis  Bosc.  Encycl.  Agric.  7:   577  (1822). 

Growing  in  company  with  C.  occidentalis  at  San  Antonio.  Usually  a 
smaller  tree,  with  smoother  bark,  and  thin,  light  green  leaves.  The 
fruit  is  bright  light  brown,  smooth  and  clear-looking;  altitude  600  feet. 

April  17  (1586). 

Celtis  Tala  Gill.;  Planch.  Ann.  Sc.  Nat.  (III.)  10  :  310  (1848). 
Celtis  pallida  Torn  Mex.  Bound.  Surv.  2:  203  (1859). 

Very  common  in  the  coast  region  about  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  10-40 
feet.  Usually  a  thick,  spreading  flexuous  bush,  but  occasionally  slender 
and  tree -like. 

Collected  near  Gregory,  San  Patricio  county,  April  14  in  flower,  and 
at  Corpus  Christi  June  8  in  fruit. 

(1570);  type  locality,  South  America. 


MORACEAE. 

MORUS  L.  Sp.  PI.  986  (1753). 

Morus  rubra  L.  Sp.  PI.  986  (1753). 

A  small  tree  in  rich  shaded  ground  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe 
at  Kerrville,  altitude  1610  feet.  A  southern  and  western  extension  of 
the  range,  which  is  given  as  "  extending  to  the  valley  of  the  Colorado, 
in  Texas." 

April  19  (1605);  type  locality,  Virginia. 
Morus  nigra  L.  Sp.  PI.  986  (1753). 

Rather  common  in  cultivation  at  Corpus  Christi.  A  single  tree  found 
growing  wild  near  the  beach,  along  the  upper  part  of  the  Bay.  Fruit 
black,  sour. 

March  14  (1448);  type  locality,  Italy. 


URTICACEAE. 

URTICA  L.  Sp.  PL  984  (1753). 

Urtica  urens  L.  Sp.  PI.  984  (1753). 

A  common  weed  in  yards,  waste  places,  and  along  the  streets  at  Cor- 
pus Christi  from  sea  level  to  40  feet.  Usually  low  and  branching  from 
the  decumbent  base.  The  effects  of  contact  with  the  stinging  hairs  of 
this  plant  last  about  1 8  or  20  hours. 

March  10  (1393)  ;  type  locality,  Europe. 


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BOEHMERIA  Jacq.  Stirp.  Am.  246,  /.  737  (1763). 
Boehmeria  cylindrica  (L.)  Willd.  Sp.  PI.  4:  340  (1809). 

Urtica  cylindrica  L.  Sp.  PI.  Ed.  2,  1396  (1763). 
In  rich,  damp,  shady  ground,  along  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe, 
above  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet. 

June  21  (1900);  type  locality,  Jamaica. 

PARIETARIA  L.  Sp.  PI.  1052  (1753). 
Parietaria  debilis  Forst.  f.  Prodr.  73  (1786). 

Abundant  about  Corpus  Christi,  from  sea  level  to  35  feet.  In  open 
and  exposed  places  flat  and  prostrate ;  becoming  ascending  with  long 
weak  stems  in  rich  shaded  ground. 

March  24  (1499);  tvPe  locality,  tropics. 


LORANTHACEAE. 

PHORADENDRON     Nutt.     Journ.     Phila.    Acad.    (II.)    1 :  185 

(1847-50). 
Phoradendron  flavescens  (Pursh)  Nutt.;  A.  Gray.  Man.  Ed.  2,  383 

(1856). 

Viscum  flavescens  Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  114  (1814). 

Very  common  about  Waco,  McLennan  county,  on  Prosopis  juliflora 
and  other  trees.  Seen  at  various  places  between  Waco  and  Corpus 
Christi  on  Quercus  Virginiana,  and  along  Nueces  Bay  on  Celtis  occi- 
dentalis.  Apparently  not  reported  before  from  extreme  Southern  Texas, 
its  southernmost  range  being  given  as  "from  Eagle  Pass  to  Central 
Texas." 

March  2  (1376) ;  type  locality  not  given. 


POLYGONACEAE. 

ERIOGONUM  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i :   246  (1803). 
Eriogonum  longifolium  Nutt.  Trans.  Am.  Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  5  :    164 

(1833-37). 

Eriogonum  Texanum  Scheele,  Linnaea,  22:    150  (1849). 

Occurring  in  limestone  soil  about  Kerrville  from  the  lowest  elevations 
along  the  Guadalupe  to  the  summit  of  the  highest  hills,  where  it  was  most 
plentiful;  altitude  1625  to  2000  feet. 

June  1 8  (1877);  type  locality,  Arkansas. 


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RUMEX  L.  Sp.  PL  333(1753)- 
Rumex  spiralis  Small,  BulL  Torr.  Club,  22 :  44  .(1895).  * 

[PLATE    I.] 

Perennial,  slender,  glabrous,  light  green,  somewhat  glaucescent.  Root- 
stock  woody,  creeping,  1-2  dm.  long;  roots  fibrous;  stem  erect, 
8-9  dm.  long,  simple  or  sparingly  branched  above,  leafy  through- 
out, slightly  flexuous,  strongly  channeled, .  woody  below ;  leaves 
lanceolate  or  oblong-lanceolate,  6-13  cm.  long,  1.5-4.5  cm.  broad, 
acute  or  sometimes  attenuate  at  the  apex,  the  lower  ones  obtuse  or 
truncate  at  the  base,  the  upper  acute  or  acuminate  at  the  base,  all 
rather  long  petioled,  coriaceous,  light-green,  undulate  and  crisped, 
neither  prominently  nor  conspicuously  nerved ;  petioles  strict,  2-5 
cm.  long ;  ocreae  cylindric,  nearly  one-half  as  long  as  the  inter- 
nodes;  inflorescence  terminal,  simply  paniculate,  naked;  racemes 
(fruiting)  5-12  cm.  long,  dense,  rather  erect,  the  terminal  one 
usually  about  twice  as  long  as  the  lateral  ones ;  calyx  2  mm.  broad ; 
pedicels  varying  from  2-4  mm.  in  length,  jointed  below  the  middle; 
wings  broadly  ovate  cordate,  broader  than  high,  i  cm.  long,  1-1.2 
cm.  broad,  straw-colored,  sometimes  slightly  constricted  below  the 
apex,  conspicuously  and  prominently  nerved,  crenulate  and  undu- 
late, each  one  bearing  an  oblong-ovoid  callosity,  the  three  wings 
strongly  spirally  twisted;  achene  broadly  oblong-ovoid,  3  mm.  long, 
short-pointed,  chestnut-colored,  its  faces  nearly  flat,  its  angles  con- 
spicuously margined. 

Found  growing  in  the  mud  on  the  margins  of  ponds  near  Kenedy, 
Games  county,  Texas,  by  Mr.  A.  A.  Heller,  collected  in  flower  and  fruit 
on  May  26,  1894  (1781).  The  altitude  of  the  station  is  about  400  feet. 
Its  nearest  relative  is  Rumex  altissimus ,  from  which,  however,  it  differs 
in  having  more  characteristically  lanceolate  leaves,  which  are  longer- 
petioled,  crisped  and  the  larger  ones  more  or  less  truncate  at  the  base 
instead  of  acuminate.  The  panicle  of  R.  spiralis  is  more  open,  not 
leafy,  and  its  racemes  are  denser  and  thicker.  Wings  twice  to  thrice  as 
large  as  in  R.  altissimus  invest  the  broadly  oblong-ovoid  achene.  The 
former  are  broader  than  high  and  strikingly  cordate,  whereas  those  of 
R.  altissimus  are  higher  than  broad,  not  strongly  cordate  and  less  prom- 
inently nerved.  So  far  as  observed  three  callosities  are  developed 
throughout. 

POLYGONUM  L.  Sp.  PI.  359  (1753). 

Polygonum  densiflorum  Meisn.  in  Mart.  Fl.  Bras.  5:  Part  i,  13(1855). 
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Collected  in  mud  and  water  in  the  San  Antonio  river,  at  the  S.  P. 
bridge,  in  mature  fruit,  May  3  (1836),  600  feet. 

On  July  2  it  was  collected  in  a  similar  situation  on  the  Guadalupe,  at 
Kerrville,  in  flower  only  (1942),  1600  feet. 

Type   locality,    "Banda  orientale   Brasiliae."      Type   in    Columbia 
College  Herbarium. 
Polygonum  lapathifolium  L.  Sp.  PL  360  (1753). 

Polygonum  Pennsylvanicum  Curt.  Fl.  Lond.  /.  7J  (1777),  not  L. 

At  Kerrville,  on  the  edge  of  the  bluff  overlooking  the  Guadalupe,  in 
wet  ground,  altitude  1650  feet,  growing  in  a  dense  clump.  Leaves  very 
resinous  beneath  ;  flowers  greenish  white,  dense. 

June  12  (1844)  ;  type  locality,  "in  Gallia." 

CHENOPODIACEAE. 

CHENOPODIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  218  (1753). 
Chenopodium  album  L.  Sp.  PL  219  (1753). 

About  the  streets  of  Kerrville,  apparently  not  very  abundant.  Altitude 
1650  feet. 

June  30  (1928) ;  type  locality,  "in  agris  Europae." 

ATRIPLEX  L.  Sp.  PL  1052  (1753). 
Atriplex 

In  sandy  soil  along  the  beach  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay.  Seen  only  in 
flower. 

June  2  (1819). 

SUAEDA  Forsk.  FL  Aeg.  Arab.  69,  /.  186  (1775). 
Suaeda  suffrutescens  S.  Wats.  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  9:  88  (1874). 

Suaeda  fruticosa  var.  ?  multiflora  Torr.  Pac.  R.  R.  Rep.  4:    130 

(1857),  in  part. 

Abundant  on  the  "Flats"  at  Corpus  Christi,  growing  in  dense  bunches. 
Sea  level. 

June  6  (1827);  type  locality  not  given;  range,  "from  western  Texas 
to  southern  California  and  northern  Mexico,  in  saline  plains." 

AMARANTACEAE. 

Amaranthus  Berlandieri  (Moq.)  Uline  &  Bray,  Bot.  Gaz.   19  :  268 
(1094). 

Sarratia  Berlandieri  Moq.;  DC.  Prodr.  132:    268  (1849). 
About  Corpus  Christi,  in  both  sandy  soil  and  black  waxy  land,  from 


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sea  level  to  40  feet,  and  at  Kerrville  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe, 
on  rocks  thinly  covered  with  soil,  1600  feet. 

April-June  (1487)  ;  type  locality,  Mexico. 
Amaranthus  blitoides  S.  Wats.  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  12  :  273  (1876). 

Very  abundant  about  Kerrville  along  gutters  and  in  open   lots  and 
yards.     Altitude,  1650  feet. 

June  15  (1867);  type  locality  not  given,  but  "  frequent  in  the  valleys 
and  plains  of  the  interior,  from  Mexico  to  N.  Nevada  and  Iowa." 
Amaranthus  Palmeri  S.  Wats.  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  12  :  274  (1876). 

On  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville  in  both  shaded  and  open 
places  but  not  plentiful.     Altitude  1625  feet. 

June    19  (1890) ;  type  locality,    "  at  Larkin's   Station,    San   Diego 
county,  California." 
Amaranthus  retroflexus  L.  Sp.  PI.  991  (1753). 

Common  in  rich  ground  about  the  streets  of  Kerrville,  altitude  1650 
feet. 

May  19  (1765) ;  type  locality,  "in  Pennsylvania." 

CLADOTHRIX  Nutt. ;  Moq.  in  DC.  Prodr.  13  :  Part  2,  359  (1849). 

Cladothrix  lanuginosa  Nutt.;  Moq.  in  DC.  Prodr.  13:  Part  2,  360 
(1849). 

Achryanthes  lanuginosa  Nutt.  Trans.  Am.  Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  5:    166 

(1833-37). 

Prostrate  in  the  sand  along  the  beach  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay.     Much 
branched  and  spreading. 

June  2  (1813) ;  type  locality,  "  secus  Salt  River  et  Red  River." 

ALTERNANTHERA  Forsk.  Fl.  Aegypt.  Arab.  28  (1775). 
Alternanthera  repens  (L.)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PI.  540  (1891). 
Achyranthes  repens  L.  Sp.  PI.  205  (1753). 
Illecebrum  Achyraniha  L.  Sp.  PI.  Ed.  2,  299  (1763). 
Alternanthera   Achyrantha   R.   Br.    Prodr.  Fl.  Nov.  Holl.  i:   417 

(1810;. 

A  common  weed  in  yards  and  open  places  in  rich  ground  at  Kerrville, 
altitude  1650  feet. 

June  15  (1896);  type  locality,  "in  Turcomannia." 

GOMPHRENA  L.  Sp.  PL  224  (1753). 

Gomphrena  Neallyi  Coult.  &  Fisher,  Cont.  U.  S.  Nat.  Herb.  2  :  363 
(1894). 

Gomphrena  nitida   Coulter,   Cont.   U.   S.   Nat.  Herb.  No.    2,  48 
(1890),  not  Rothrock. 


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Rather  plentiful  about  Corpus  Christi,  in  dry  ground,  often  freely 
branching  from  the  large  fusiform  root,  thus  making  a  clump  of  a  dozen 
or  more  stems.  In  March  it  was  first  found  in  flower  when  only  two  or 
three  inches  high,  and  in  June  plants  from  1-2  feet  high  were  collected  ; 
altitude,  sea  level  to  40  feet. 

March  8  (1408)  ;  from  type  locality. 

IRESINE  P.  Br.  Civ.  &  Nat.  Hist.  Jam.  358  (1755). 

Iresine  vermicularis  (L.)  Moq.  in  DC.  Prod.  13 :  2,  340  (1849). 
Gomphrena  vermicularis  L.  Sp.  PI.  224  (1753). 
Jllecebrium  vermiculatum  L.  Sp.  PL  Ed.  2,  300  (1762). 
Philoxerus  vermiculatus  Rees.  Cycl.  5  :   27  (         ). 
Growing  in  dense  tangled  bunches  on  the  flat,  sandy  shore  of  Mustang 
Island,  on    the  west  side,  at  Rope's  Pass.     Distributed  as  Philoxerus 
vermicularis  Moq. 

May  28  (1784);  type  locality,  "in  Brasilia,  Curassao." 


PHYTOLACCACEAE. 

RIVINAL.  Sp.  PL  121  (1753). 

Rivina  humilis  L.  Sp.  PL  121  (1753). 

Growing  by  and  under  bushes  at  Corpus  Christi ;  also  at  Kerrville. 

March  9  (1422),  sea  level  to  35  feet  at  Corpus  Christi;    1625  feet  at 
Kerrville. 

PHYTOLACCA  L.  Sp.  PL  441  (1753). 

Phytolacca  decandra  L.  Sp.  PL  Ed.  2,  631  (1762). 

In  rich,  shaded  ground,  on  the  left  banks  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerr- 
ville, altitude  1620  feet. 

June  19  (1891);  type  locality,  "  in  Virginia." 

BATIDEAE. 

BATIS  P.  Br.  Civ.  £  Nat.  Hist.  Jam.  358  (1755). 

Batis  maritima  L.  Sp.  PL  Ed.  2,  1451  (1763). 

Growing  luxuriantly  on  the  "Flats"  at  Corpus  Christi,  especially  in 
the  moister  portions.     Sea  level. 

June  6  (1825)  ;  type  locality,  "  in  Jamaicae  maritimis  salsis." 


NYCTAGINACEAE. 

ALLIONIA  Loefl.  Iter  Hisp.  181  (1758). 
[OxYBAPHUsL'Her;  Willd.  Sp.  PI.  i:   185  (i797)-] 

Allionia  albida  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  84  (1788). 

Calymenia  albida  Nutt.  Gen.  i:    26(1818).- 
Oxybaphus  albidus  Choisy  in  DC.  Prodr.  13  :  Part  2,  433  (1849). 
Occurring  on  the  grassy  plateau  along  Corpus  Christi  Bay,  in  rich 
black  land ;  altitude  35  feet. 

April  9  (1545) ;  type  locality,  Carolina. 
Allionia  nyctaginea  Michx.  FL  Bor.  Am.  i  :   100  (1803). 
Calymenia  nyctaginea  Nutt.  Gen.  i:    26  (1818). 
Oxybaphus  nyctagineus  Sweet,  Hort.  Brit.  429  (1830). 
On  the  left  bank  of  Town  Creek,  at  Kerrville,  in  rich  shaded  ground, 
altitude  1625  feet. 

May  17  (1757);  type  locality,   "ad  ripas  fluminis  Tennessee." 

MIRABILIS  L.  Sp.  PI.  177  (1753). 

Mirabilis  Jalapa  L.  Sp.  PL  177  (1753). 

Two  or  three  large  spreading  plants  were  growing  on  the  bluff  along 
the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville.     Flowers  rose  color. 

June  18  (1881);  type  locality,  India. 

BOERHAVIA  L.  Sp.  PL  3  (1753). 

Boerhavia  linearifolia  A.  Gray,  Am.  Journ.  Sci.  (II.)  15  :  322  (1853). 

Found  sparingly  in  gravel  on  the  right  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerr- 
ville, altitude  1600  feet. 

June  13  (1849);  type  locality,  W.  Texas. 

Boerhavia  obtusifolia  Lam.  111.  i  :   10  (1791). 

Boerhavia  viscosa  Lag.  &  Rodr.  Anal.  Cienc.  Nat.  4:    256,  No.  12 

(1801). 

Boerhavia  patula  Domb. ;  Lag.  Enum.  i  :    287  (1805). 
Open  ground  at  Corpus  Christi,  where  it  is  plentiful ;   altitude,  sea 
level.     Flat  on  the  ground,  except  the  ends  of  the  branches,  which  are 
slightly  ascending.     The  small  flowers  are  dark  rose  purple  in  color. 
Pena,  Duval  county,  seems  to  have  been  its  previous  eastern  limit. 
May  29  (1792);  type  locality,  Central  America. 


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AIZOACEAE. 

MOLLUGO  L.  Sp.  PI.  89  (1753). 
Mollugo  verticillata  L.  Sp.  PL  89  (1753). 

In  cultivated  ground  at  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  40  feet. 
May  30  (1798);  type  locality,  "in  Africa,  Virginia." 

SESUVIUM  L.  Syst.  Ed.  10,  1058  (1759). 
Sesuvium  Portulacastrum  L.  Sp.  PL  Ed.  2,  684  (1762). 
Portulaca  Portulacastrum,  L.  Sp.  PL  446  (1753). 
?  Polecarpon  uniflorum  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  83  (1788). 
Sesuvium  pedunculatum  Pers.  Syn.  PL  2  :  39  (1807). 
Aizoon  Canariense  Andr.  Bot.  Rep.  /.  201. 

In  moist  saline  soil  at  the  Oso,  9  miles  southeast  of  Corpus  Christi. 
April  9  (1534);  type  locality,  "in  Indiae  maritimus." 

PORTULACACEAE. 

TALINUM  Adans.  Fam.  PL  2:   245  (1765). 
Talinum  lineare  H.B.K.  Nov.  Gen.  6:    77  (1823). 

Talinum  aurantiacum  Engelm.  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  6:  153  (1850). 
In  dry,  open  pasture  land  near  Gregory,  San  Patricio  county,  altitude 
35  feet.      Less  than  a  half  dozen  plants  were  seen. 

April  14  (1568);  type  locality,   "locis   aridis,  inter  Mexico  et  Real 
de  Pachuca,  prope  Gasave,  in  valli  Tenochtitlanensi  ?" 

CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 

SILENE  L.  Sp.  PL  416  (1753). 
Silene  antirrhina  L.  Sp.  PL  419  (1753). 

In  gutters  and  waste  places  about  the  streets  of  Kerrville,  growing  in 
patches,  but  not  yet  abundant;  altitude  1650  feet. 

June  15  (1865);  type  locality,   "  in  Virginia,  Carolina." 

ARENARIA  L.  Sp.  PL  423  (1753). 

Arenaria  Benthami¥vs\z\.;  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i  :   675  (1840;. 
Arenaria  monticola  Buckley,  Proc.  Acad.  Phila.   449  (1861)  fide 

Gray  same  161  (1862). 
On  a  rocky  limestone  ridge  along  Wolf  Creek,  northeastern  part  of 


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Kerr  county,  growing  in  situations  similar  to  Buckley's  plants  ;  altitude 
1800  feet. 
April  30  (1676);  type  locality,  "  Texas,"  collected  by  Drummond. 

TISSA  Adans.  Fam.  PI.  2:  507  (1763). 

Tissa  diandra  (Guss.)  Britton,  Bull.  Torr.  Club,  16:    128  (1889). 
Arenaria  diandra  Guss.  Fl.  Sic.  Prodr.  i:   515  (1827). 
Arenaria  salsuginea  Bunge  in  Ledeb.  Fl.  Alt.  2  :    163  (1829). 
Spergularia  diandra  Boiss.  Fl.  Orient.  I ;    733  (1867). 
In  sand  at  Corpus  Christi,  covered  by  sea  water  during  storms  when 
the  water  is  forced  back  over  the  beach.     Also  in  a  depression  not  affected 
by  salt  water,  but  where  water    collects    during    rains,   and    in    dry 
ground  within  the  enclosure  of  the  ''Bluff  City  Park." 
March  9  (1413). 

PARONYCHIA  Adans.  Fam.  PL  2:   272  (1763). 
Paronychia  setacea  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i  :   170  (1838). 

Abundant  on  the  summits  of  the  limestone  hills  about  Kerrville.  Also 
seen  in  the  low  ground  along  Town  Creek,  altitude  1625-2000  feet. 

May  14  (1729);  type  locality,  "Texas,"  collected  by  Drummond. 

RANUNCULACEAE. 

DELPHINIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  530  (1753). 
Delphinium  Carolinianum    Walt.  Fl.  Car.  155  (1788). 

Delphinium  azureum  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i :   314  (1803). 

At  San  Antonio,  on  the  right  bank  of  the  San  Antonio,  near  the  S.  P. 
bridge,  occurred  a  white  flowered  form,  or  sometimes  tinged  with  pink. 
April  17  (1583),  600  feet.  • 

On  the  hillsides  and  summits  about  Kerrville  it  was  never  white,  but 
bright  blue  or  pinkish.  May  8  (1723),  1700-2000  feet. 

Type  locality  not  given  by  Walter;  "  in_  Carolina  et  Georgia," 
by  Michx. 

CLEMATIS  L.  Sp.  PL  543  0753)- 
Clematis  Simsii  Sweet,  Hort.  Brit,  i  :   i  (1827). 

Clematis  cor  data  Sims,  Bot.  Mag.  /.  1816  (1816),  not  Pursh. 
Clematis  PitcheriT.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :    10  (1838). 
Frequent  along  the  Guadalupe  and  Town  Creek,  at  Kerrville,  climb- 
ing over  bushes;  altitude  1600  feet. 
April-June  (1607). 


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Clematis  Texensis  Buckley,  Proc.  Phila.  Acad.  448  (1861). 

Occurring  sparingly  along  the  Guadalupe  and  Town  Creek,  at  Kerr- 
ville.  This  plant  agrees  very  well  with  Buckley's  description,  the 
"caule  scandente,  foliis  pedunculatis,  integris,  lato-ovatis,  acuminatis 
mucronatis,"  being  quite  correct,  but  the  thin  leaves  are  coriaceous,  which 
character  is  much  more  apparent  in  dried  specimens  than  in  fresh  ones. 
They  are  light  green,  glaucous  beneath.  "  Part  of  these  stem  leaflets 
are  on  long  tendril-like  petioles,"  corresponds  also.  The  slender,  conical 
calyx  is  slightly  contracted  near  the  middle,  an  inch  or  more  long,  bright 
scarlet  in  color,  rarely  reflexed  at  the  tips  and  then  only  slightly. 

The  figure  in  Bot.  Mag.  /.  6594,  of  C.  coccinea  Engelm.  does  not 
agree  with  this  plant,  neither  do  specimens  in  the  Columbia  College 
herbarium,  cultivated  at  Easton,  Pa.  C.  coccinea  has  much  shorter  and 
broader  flowers,  thick,  coriaceous,  and  rounder  and  more  recticulated 
leaflets.  Distributed  as  C.  "  Texana"  Buckley.  A  form  intermediate 
between  this  plant  and  C.  Simsii  was  collected  on  the  Guadalupe,  in 
close  proximity  to  both.  The  leaflets  are  more  coriaceous  than  those  of 
either  of  the  others,  glaucous,  though  less  so  than  in  C.  Texensis.  The 
flower  is  dull  purple  red,  or  rather  brick  red,  and  in  shape  more  like 
that  of  C.  Simsii. 

April  19  to  June  26  (1608);  type  locality,  "on  the  Colorado  river, 
above  Austin." 

RANUNCULUS  L.  Sp  PI.  548  (1753). 
Ranunculus  macranthus  Scheele,  Linnaea  21  :  585  (1848). 

Ranunculus   repens,    var   macranthus   A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat. 

Hist.  6  :    141  (1850). 

In  a  wet  place  on  the  stony  limestone  plateau  about  six  miles  north- 
east of  Kerrville,  altitude  1900  feet. 

April  30  (1688)  ;  type  locality,  "  prope  Neu  Braunfels." 
Ranunculus  trachyspermus  Engelm.  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  5  :   211 

(1847)- 

Growing  in  damp  rich  "  black  waxy  land  "  at  Corpus  Christi,  at  an 
altitude  of  about  40  feet.  Very  scarce. 

March  17  (1457)  ;  type  locality,  "  Margins  of  ponds  near  Houston." 

BERBERIDACEAE. 

BERBERIS  L.  Sp.  PI.  330  (1753). 
Berberis  trifoliolata  Moric.  PI.  Nouv.  Am.  113,  /.  69  (1833-46). 


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Berberis  trifoliata  Hartw.  ;   Lindl.  Bot.  Reg.  27  :   Misc.  68-31,  /. 

10  (         ). 

Abundant  about  Corpus  Christi,  ranging  from  sea  level  along  Nueces 
Bay  to  40  feet  on  the  plateau.     Distributed  as  B.  "trifoliata"  Moric. 
March  6  (1384). 

MENISPERMACEAE. 

CEBATHA  Forsk.  Fl.  ^Egypt.  171  (1775). 
[CoccuLus  DC.  Syst.  Veg.  i:  515  (1818).] 

Cebath  Carolina  (L.)  Britton,  Mem.  Torr.  Club,  5  :  162  (1894). 
Menispermum  Carolinum  L.  Sp.  PI.  340  (1753). 
Cocculus  Carolinus  DC.  Syst.  Veg.  I  :   524  (1818). 
Cebatha  Virginica  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  9  (1891). 
In  dry  open  ground  at  Kerrville,  at  an  altitude  of  1650  feet.     Plants 
less  than  a  foot  long,  growing  in  bunches. 

June  26  (1915)  ;  type  locality,   "in  Carolina." 

PAPAVERACEAE. 

ARGEMONE  L.  Sp.  PL  508  (1753). 
Argemone  Mexicana  L.  Sp.  PL  508  (1753). 

At  Corpus  Christi  from  sea  level  to  40  feet,  but  most  abundant  along 
the  S.  A.  &  A.  P.  Railroad,  the  embankment  being  white  with  it.  No 
yellow-flowered  ones  were  seen,  nor  any  of  the  A.  platyceras  rosea 
Coulter,  the  type  of  which  was  collected  here. 

March  5  (1378);  type  locality,  "in  Mexico,  Jamaica,  Carabaeis." 

CAPNOIDES  Adans.  Fam.  PL  2:  431  (1763). 
[NECKERIA  Scop.  Introd.  313  (1777).] 
[CORYDALIS  Vent.  Choix.  19  (1803).] 

Capnoides  micranthum  (Engelm.)  Britton,  Mem.   Torr.   Club,  5  : 
166  (1894). 

Cory dalis  aurea  var.  micrantha  Engelm.  in  A.  Gray,  Man.  Ed.  5, 

62  (1867). 

Corydalis  micrantha  A.  Gray,  Coult.  Bot.  Gaz.  n  :    189  (1886). 
First   collected   along  Nueces   Bay  at  sea  level,  as  a   small  upright 
plant,  and  later  at  Corpus  Christi  at  35  feet,  occurring  as  a  weak  slender 
reclining  plant  two  feet  high.     Both  stations  were  in  rich  shaded  ground. 
Scarce.     Distributed  as  C.  aureum. 

March  12  (1433)  ;  type  locality,  "  W.  Illinois  and  St.  Louis." 


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CRUCIFERAE. 

LEPIDIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  642  (1753). 

Lepidium  intermedium  A.  Gray,  PI.  Wright.  2  :  15  (1853). 

At  Corpus  Christi  within  the  enclosure  of  the  "  Bluff  City  Park,"  at 
sea  level,  where  it  is  plentiful. 

March  9  (1421);  type  locality,  "ravines  of  the  Organ  Mountains, 
northeast  of  El  Paso." 
Lepidium  lasiocarpum  tenuipes  S.  Wats.  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  17:  322 

(1882). 

Growing  in  thick  patches,  several  of  which  occur  at  Kerrville,  in  rich 
open  ground  in  the  town,  altitude  1650  feet.  Plant  clammy  puberulent, 
pod  with  hispid  scattered  hairs. 

April  25  (1651). 
Lepidium  Virginicum  L.  Sp.  PL  645  (1753). 

In  sand  at  Corpus  Christi  at  sea  level.     A  low  procumbent  bushy  form. 

March  24  (1495);  type  locality,   "in  Virginia,  Jamaicae  glareosis." 

SISYMBRIUM  L:  Sp.  PL  657  (1753). 

Sisymbrium  pinnatum   (Walt.)   Greene,   Bull.  Cal.  Acad.  2  :  390 
(1887). 

Erysimum  pinnatum  Walt.  FL  Car.  174  (1788). 
Cardamine  (?)  multifida  Pursh,  FL  Am.  Sept.  440  (1814). 
Sisymbrium  canescens  Nutt.  Gen.  2:   68  (1818). 
In   sandy  soil  at  the  Oso,  under  bushes,  at  about  15  feet  altitude. 
Also  plentiful  in  yards  at  Corpus  Christi. 
March  21  (1470)  ;  type  locality  not  given. 

RORIPA  Scop.  FL  Cam.  520  (1760). 

[NASTURTIUM  R.  Br.  in  Ait.  Hort.  Kew.  Ed.  2,  4  :    109  (1812).] 
Roripa  Nasturtium  (L.)  Rusby,    Mem.    Torr.    Club,  3:    No.    3,5 

(1893). 

Sisymbrium  Nasturtium  L.  Sp.  PL  657  (1753). 

Nasturtium   offidnale  R.  Br.  in  Ait.   Hort.  Kew.  Ed.   2,  4  :    no 

(1812). 

Common  at  Kerrville  in  wet  places,  in  a  little  stream  in  the  town,  and 
on  the  Guadalupe,  from  1600-1650  feet  altitude. 

May  1 6  (1753) ;  type  locality,  "  in  Europa  and  America  septentrionali 
ad  fontes." 


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Roripa  tanacetifolia  (Walt.). 

Sisymbrium  tanacetifolium  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  174  (1788). 
Nasturtium  tanacetifolium  Hook.  &  Arn.,  in  Hook.  Journ.  of  Bot. 

i:    190  (1834). 

At  Corpus  Christ!  on  the  edge  of  dried-up  water  holes,  altitude  35  feet. 
Very  plentiful  near  the  "  Arroyo." 

March  23  (1488);  type  locality,  Carolina. 


LESQUERELLA  S.  Wats.  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  23:   249  (i! 
Lesquerella  Gordon!  (A.  Gray)  S.  Wats.  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  23:   253 
(1888). 

Vesicaria  Gordoni  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  6:    148  (1850). 
Vesicaria  angustifolia  A.  Gray,  PL  Wright,  2  :  13  (1853),  not  Nutt. 
Plentiful  on  the  grassy  plateau  southeast  of  Corpus  Christi,  in  rich 
black  land,  at  an  altitude  of  15-35  ^eet- 

March  21  (1478);  type  locality,  "on  the  Canadian,  in  the  Raton 
Mountains." 

Lesquerella  recurvata  (Engelm.)  S.   Wats.  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  23 : 
253  (1888). 

Vesicaria  recurvata  Engelm. ;   Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  6  :    147 

(1850). 

Vesicaria  angustifolia  Scheele,  Linnaea,  21  :   584  (1848),  not  Nutt. 
Abundant  on  the  summits  of  the  hills  about  Kerrville,  altitude  2000 
feet.     Also  observed  along  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1600  feet. 

April  26  (1657);  type  locality,  "San  Antonio  and  New  Braunfels." 

DRABA  L.  Sp.  PL  642  (1753). 
Draba  brachycarpa  Nutt. ;  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :   108  (1838). 

In  open  ground  about  Waco,  McLennan  county,  altitude  400  feet, 
where  it  is  plentiful.  At  that  time  only  an  inch  or  two  high.  Not 
recorded  in  the  Manual  of  Western  Texas. 

March  2  (1371);  type  localities,  St.  Louis,  Milledgeville  and  Macon, 
Georgia. 
Draba  cuneifolia  Nutt.;  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i  :   108  (1838). 

Collected  first  in  fields  at  Waco,  McLennan  county,  altitude  400 
feet,  later  at  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  about  6  feet,  on  the  shell  deposit 
in  the  yard  of  Ritter's  Hotel.  •  This  latter  form  (1379)  is  very  low  and 
stunted,  but  with  large  pods.  Later  it  was  collected  on  limestone  hill- 
sides near  Kerrville. 

March  2  (1370)  ;  range  "  grassy  places  around  St.  Louis,  Missouri ; 
also  in  Arkansas  and  West  Florida,  Nuttall;  Kentucky,  Short." 


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Draba  platycarpa  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :   108  (1838). 

Draba  cuneifoliavxt.  platycarpa  S.  Wats.  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  23  :    256 

(1888). 

Collected  with  D.  cuneifolia  at  Waco,  the  two  often  growing  side  by 
side,  but  readily  distinguished.     Found  later  at  Corpus  Christi  along 
the  railroad  embankment  of  the  S.  A.  &  A.  P. 
March  8  (1411) ;  type  locality,  « 'Texas." 

ARABIS   L.  Sp.  PL  664  (1753). 
[TuRRiTisL.  Sp.  PI.  666  (1753).] 

Arabis  Virginica  (L.)  Trelease ;  Branner  &  Coville,  Rep.  Geol.  Surv. 
Ark.  1884,  4:   165  (1891). 

Cardamine  Virginica  L.  Sp.  PI.  656  (1753). 

Collected  first  at  Waco,  McLennan  county,  altitude  400  feet,  on  edges 
of  cultivated  fields  (1372),  and  later  at  Corpus  Christi,  in  open  pasture 
land  in  moist  soil,  altitude  40  feet.  Distributed  as  Roripa  {Nasturtium) 
tanacetifolium . 

March  8  (1407);  type  locality,  "in  Virginia." 

SYNTHLIPSIS  A.  Gray,  Mem.  Am.  Acad.  4  :   116  (1849). 
Synthlipsis  Berlandieri  hispida  S.  Wats.  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  17  :   321 

(1882). 

Abundant  in  the  low  ground  bordering  on  the  flats  at  Corpus  Christi, 
at  sea  level.  Not  observed  on  the  plateau,  where  Lesquerella  Gordoni 
takes  its  place. 

March  8  (1405)  ;   from  the  type  locality. 

CAPPARIDACEAE. 

POLANISIA  Raf.  Journ.  Phys.  89:  98  (1819). 

Polanisia  trachysperma  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :  669  (1840). 

Low,  sandy  ground  along  the  beach  and  along  the  streets  at  sea  level, 
Corpus  Christi,  but  not  very  abundant. 

May  29  (1787);  type  locality,   "Texas." 

PLATANACEAE. 

PLATANUS  L.  Sp.  PL  999  (1753). 
Platanus  occidentalis  L.  Sp.  PL  999  (1753). 

Along  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville,  and  other  streams  throughout  Ken- 
county.  Usually  a  tall  slender  tree. 

April  19  (1622);  type  locality,  "in  America  septentrionali." 


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ROSACEAE. 

CRATAEGUS  L.  Sp.  PL  475  (1753)- 
Crataegus  Crus-galli  L.  Sp.  PL  476  (1753). 

On  the  summit  of  a  stony,  limestone  hill  about  5  miles  northwest  of 
Kerrville  along  Town  Creek,  altitude  1900  feet.  Only  two  bushes 
about  5  feet  high  were  seen.  A  western  and  southern  extension  of  the 
range  in  Texas.  "  Extending  into  Texas  to  the  Colorado  and  its  tribu- 
taries."—  Coulter. 

April  29  (1668) ;  type  locality  not  given. 

ROSA  L.  Sp.  PL  491  (1753). 
Rosa  Arkansana  Porter,  Syn.  Fl.  Colo.  38  (1874). 

Rosa  blanda  var.    Arkansana   Best,    Bull.    Torr.   Club.    17  :    145 

(1890).  ' 

In  rich  wooded  bottom  land  along  Bear  Creek,  northeast  Kerr  county, 
at  an  altitude  of  about  1800  feet.     Two  to  three  feet  high,  flowers  white. 
April  30  (1687) ;  type  locality,  "  banks  of  the  Arkansas  near  Canon 
City"  (Colorado). 

CERASUS  Juss.  Gen.  340  (1774). 
Cerasus  serotina  (Ehrh.)  Lois,  in  Duham.  Nouv.  5  :   3  (1812). 

Prunus  serotina  Ehrh.  Beitr.  3  :    20  (1788). 

Several  small  trees  on  the  steep,  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerr- 
ville, altitude  1625  feet. 

April  19  in  flower,  May  16  in  fruit  (1592). 


LEGUMINOSAE. 

ACACIA  Adans.  Fam.  PL  2  :  319  (1763). 

Acacia  filiculoides  (Cav.)  TreL;  Branner   &    Coville,    Kept.    Geol. 
Surv.  Ark.  1888,  4  :    178  (1891). 

Mimosa  filiculoides  Cav.  Ic.  i :   55,  t.  78  (1791). 
Acacia filicina  Willd.  Sp.  PL  4:   1072  (1806). 

Collected  first  at  the  Oso,  in  sandy  ground  at  sea  level  (1563),  where 
it  was  scarce,  later  at  Kerrville,  on  the  edges  of  cultivated  fields,  and 
under  bushes  in  pasture  land,  altitude  1650-1800  feet. 
May  21  (1770);  type  locality,  ''Mexico." 


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Acacia  amentacea  DC.  Prodr.  2:  455  (1825). 

Acacia  rigictula  Benth.  Lond.  Jour.  Bot.  i  :   504  (1842). 

Usually  a  low,  gnarled  and  twisted  branching  prostrate  shrub  at  Corpus 
Christi,  altitude  10-35  feet,  beginning  to  flower  before  the  leaves  appear. 
Very  spiny.  Sometimes  erect  and  spreading. 

March  5  -(1382)  ;  type  locality,  "  in  Nova-Hispania." — Mexico. 
Acacia  Farnesiana  Willd.  Sp.  PI.  4:   1083  (1806). 

A  handsome  tree  with  smooth  brown  bark,  much  cultivated  at  Corpus 
Christi,  but  growing  wild  about  the  town,  on  the  bluff  portion,  altitude 
20-40  feet.  The  flowering  heads  on  the  specimens  collected  were  only 
slightly  odorous,  rather  small  and  lax,  scattered. 

March  17  (1454)  ',  type  locality,   "  in  Domingo." 
Acacia  Roemeriana  Scheele,  Linnaea  21 :  456  (1848). 

One  of  the  most  common  shrubs  on  the  hills  about  Kerrville,  usually 
confined  to  near  and  on  the  summits,  at  an  altitude  of  1900-2000  feet. 
The  original  description  calls  for  "  flores  rosei,"  perhaps  owing  to  dis- 
coloration in  the  dried  specimens.  They  are  tawny  white.  Schlechten- 
dahl  instead  of  Scheele,  is  often  given  as  the  author  of  this  species. 

April   23  in  flower,  in  fruit  May  22  (1624);  type  locality,   "  prope 
Austin." 
Acacia  tortuosa  Willd.  Sp.  PI.  4:   1083  (1806). 

Growing  in  company  with,  and  flowering  at  the  same  time  as  A. 
amentacea.  A  prostrate,  much-twisted,  spreading  bush,  the  orange  yel- 
low flowers  of  which  are  delightfully  fragrant.  The  numerous  heads  are 
on  slender,  glandular  peduncles  an  inch  long.  Spines  over  an  inch  long, 
whitish,  at  least  the  older  ones.  The  pods  are  from  two  to  four  inches 
long,  usually  curved,  linear,  flat,  with  flat  edges  a  line  or  two  wide, 
tomentose,  covered  especially  along  the  sides  with  cherry-colored  glands. 
Flowering  specimens  of  this  have,  no  doubt,  often  been  confused  with 
A.  Farnesiana.  I  took  it  to  be  that  species  until  I  found  it  in  fruit. 

March  5  (1383);  type  locality,  West  Indies. 

MIMOSA  L.  Sp.  PI.  516  (1753). 
Mimosa  fragrans  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  6:    182  (1850). 

Frequently  met  with  along  the  stony  banks  of  the  Guadalupe  and  on 
hillsides  at  Kerrville,  ranging  from  1625-1900  feet  altitude.  A  shrub 
3-6  feet  high,  with  slender,  flexuous  branches,  bearing  an  abundance  of 
pale  rose  purple  flowers,  which  fade  almost  white  when  old.  The  pod 
is  occasionally  armed  with  scattered  prickles. 

April  19  in  flower,  May  20  in  fruit  (1594);  type  locality,  "rocky 
soil  on  the  Pierdenales,"  a  stream  eighteen  miles  north  of  Kerrville. 


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MORONGIA  Britton,  Mem.  Torr.  Club,  5:   191  (1894). 

[SCHRANKIA  Willd.  Sp.  PI.  4:    1041  (1806),  not  Medic.  (1792)-] 

Morongia  angustata  (T.  &  G.)  Britton,  Mem.   Torr.  Club,  5:    191 

(1894). 
Schrankia  angustatal '.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :   400  (1840). 

Specimens  referred  to  this  species  were  collected  in  fruit  at  Kenedy, 
Carnes  county,  along  the  railroad  embankment,  altitude  400  feet,  and  at 
Corpus  Christi  in  bare  open  ground  along  the  beach  at  about  8  feet 
altitude. 

May  26  (1779);  type  locality  not  given;  range,  S.  Carolina;  Geor- 
gia; Texas. 
Morongia  Roemeriana  (Scheele). 

Mimosa  Roemeriana  Scheele,  Linnaea,  21  :   456  (1848). 
Schrankia platycarpa  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  6  1183  (1850). 

Abundant  about  Kerrville  in  stony  or  gravelly  ground.  Mimosa  Roe- 
meriana and  Schrankia  platycarpa  are  undoubtedly  the  same,  as  Gray 
suggests  in  his  publication  of  S.  platycarpa,  but  refused  to  recognize 
Scheele's  plant  because  the  fruit  was  not  characterized.  Acacia  Roe- 
meriana  Scheele,  described  on  the  same  page  with  M.  Roemeriana  is 
described  from  flowering  material  only,  and  in  addition  has  the  error  of 
"  flores  rosei,"  yet  it  was  accepted  as  a  good  species.  The  leaflets  cf 
the  Kerrville  plant  are  barely  ciliate.  They  are  like  those  of  M.  angus- 
tata in  being  veinless,  but  are  shorter  and  broader.  The  unusually 
broad,  flat  legume,  separates  it  at  once  from  our  other  species. 

April  23  in  flower,  June  in  fruit  (1634) ;  type  locality,  "  prope  New 
Braunfels." — Scheele;  "dry,  stony,  prairies..  New  Braunfels." — Gray. 

ACUAN  Med.  Theod.  Sp.  52  (1786). 
[DESMANTHUS  Willd.  Sp  PI.  4:   1044  (1806).] 
[DARLINGTONIA  DC.  Ann.  Sci.  Nat.  4  :   97  (1825).] 
Acuan  Illinoensis  (Michx.)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  158  (1891). 
Mimosa  Illinoensis  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2  :    254  (1803). 
Acacia  brachyloba  Willd.  Sp.  PI.  4:    1071   (1806). 
Desmanthus  brachylobus¥>w\h.  in  Hook.  Journ.  Bot.  4  :  358  (1842). 
In  low,  moist  ground  along  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600 
feet.     Flowers  in  lax  heads,  white  or  rose  tinted. 

June  13  (1847)  ;  type  locality,  "in  pratensibus  regionis  Illinoensis." 
Acuan  depressa  (H.  &  B.)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  158  (1891). 

Desmanthus  depressus  H.  &  B.  in  Willd.  Sp.  PL  4  :    1046  (1806). 
Desmanthus  diffusus  Willd.  Sp.  PL  4  :    1046  (1806). 
Plentiful   in  cultivated  ground  at  the  Oso,  altitude   about    15    feet. 


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Pros' rate  and  widely  spreading.     The  majority  of  the  pods  are  shorter 
than  usual  in  my  specimens. 

April  12  (1553);  type  locality,  "in  America  meridionali." 
Acuan  reticulata  (Benth.)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  158  (1891). 

Desmanthus  reticulatus  Benth.  in  Hook,  Journ.  Bot.  4  :   357  (1842). 

Two  plants  of  this  species  were  collected  along  the  roadside  northeast 
of  Kerrville,  altitude  1 700  feet.  Two  very  good  characters  are  omitted 
by  Coulter,  in  the  Manual  of  Western  Texas,  namely,  "the  glaucous 
color  of  the  foliage  in  the  fresh  state,"  and  the  strongly  reticulated  pod, 
whence  the  specific  name. 

June  30  (1931);  type  locality,  San  Felipe,  Texas,  collected  by 
Drummond. 

Acuan  velutina  (Scheele)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  158  (1891). 
Desmanthus  velutinus  Scheele,  Linnaea  21  :   455  (1848). 

Common  about  Kerrville,  from  the  low  gravelly  banks  of  Town  Creek 
1600  feet  altitude,  to  about  1800  feet  on  the  hillsides  in  pasture  land. 
Usually  decumbent ;  much  branched  from  the  stout  perennial  root. 

April  23  to  June  20  (1655);  type  locality,  "  auf  sumpfigem  Boden 
am  oberen  Komalkreek  bei  Neubraunfels. " 

NEPTUNIA  Lour. 
Neptunia  lutea  (Leavenw.)  Benth.  in  Hook.  Jour.  Bot.  4  :  356  (1842). 

Acacia  lutea   Leavenw.  Am.  Jour.  Sci.  7  :   61  (1824). 
Young  plants  were  seen   in  sandy  ground  at   Flower   Bluff,  Nueces 
county,  in  flower  on  April  9,  at  sea  level.     Later  good  fruiting  specimens 
were  obtained  at  Corpus  Christi,  growing  in  moist,  rich  bla-.k  land  on 
the  edge  of  a  water  hole,  near  the  Arroyo,  altitude  40  feet. 

June  5  (1822)  ;  type  locality,  "prairies  of  Green  county,  Alabama." 

PROSOPIS  L.  Mant.  68  (1767). 
Prosopis  juliflora  DC.  Prodr.  2  :  447  (1825). 

Occurring  at  Corpus  Christi  in  low  ground  outside  of  the  "  Bluff  City 
Park"  as  a  prostrate  spreading  bush  flowering  profusely.  Also  a  good 
sized  shrub  near  by,  and  on  higher  land  often  a  small  spreading  tree. 
Very  abundant  throughout  the  region  of  Corpus  Christi. 

March  20  in  flower,  June  5  in  fruit  (1465);  type  locality,  in  sicciori- 
bus  Jamaicae  australis." 

PARKINSONIA  L.  Sp.  PL  375  (1753). 
Parkinsonia  aculeata  L.  Sp.  PL  375  (1753). 

This  very  ornamental  tree  was  first  noticed  at  Corpus  Christi,  begin- 


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rung  to  flower  early  in  April,  altitude  35  feet.     At  San  Antonio,  where 
it  is  abundant,  it  was  flowering  profusely  a  month  later. 

April  ii  to  May  5  (1551)  ;  type  locality,   "  in  America  calidiore." 

CERCISL.  Sp.  PI.  374(i753)- 

Cercis  occidentalis  Torr.;  A.  Gray.  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  6:    177 
(1850). 

A  large  bash  or  small  tree  in  rich  ground  about  Kerrville,  from  the 
banks  of  Town  Creek  to  the  summits  of  the  hills,  altitude  1700  to  2000 
feet.  : 

April  26  (1653)  j  from  the  type  locality,  "  rocky  plains  of  the  Upper 
Guadalupe." 

CASSIA  L.  Sp.  PI.  376  (1753). 

Cassia  Roemeriana  Scheele,  Linnaea  21  :   457  (1848). 

This  handsome  species  was  first  collected  on  the  summits  of  hills  about 
Kerrville  ;  later  it  was  found  growing  at  much  lower  elevations,  and  quite 
plentiful.  Always  growing  in  rich  open  ground,  altitude  1650-2000  feet. 

April-June  (1666);  type  locality,  ' '  auf  felsigem  Boden,  am  Rande 
von  Gebtisch,  nordlich  von  Neubraunfels. " 

CAESALPINIA  L.  Sp.  PL  380  (1753). 

[HOFMANSEGGIA  Cav.    Ic.  4:    63,  /.  J^2~J^J  ( I  797).] 

Caesalpinia  Falcaria  (Cav.)  Fisher;  Coult.  Bot.  Gaz.  18:  122  (1893). 
Hofmanseggia  Falcaria  Cav.  Ic.  4:   63,  /.  392  (1797). 
Hofmanseggia  stricta  Benth.  ;  A.  Gray,  PI.  Wright,  I  :  56  (1852). 
A  few  plants  were  collected  in  a  cultivated  field  at  the  Oso,  in  sandy 
ground,  altitude  about  6  feet. 

April  9  (1554);  type  locality,   "Zacatecas,  Mexico." 

BAPTISIA  Vent.  Dec.  Gen.  Nov.  9  (1808). 

Baptisia  australis  (L.)  R.  Br.  in  Ait.  f.  Hort.  Kew.  3  :   6  (1811). 
Sophora  australis  L.  Syst.  Ed.  12,  2  :    287  (1767). 

In  low  flat  ground  at  the  head  of  Nueces  Bay,  where  it  is  abundant. 
Bears  a  dense  drooping  raceme  of  large  creamy  flowers,  called  "Meadow 
Queen"  locally,  and  said  to  be  injurious  to  stock  if  eaten.  There  was 
very  little  grass  or  other  food  where  this  was  growing,  yet  it  was  un- 
touched by  the  numerous  cattle  pasturing  there. 

April  3  (1523). 

LUPINUS  L.  Sp.  PL  721  (1753). 
Lupinus  subcarnosus  Hook.  Bot.  Mag.  t.  34.67  (         ). 
Lupinus  Texensis  Hook.  Bot.  Mag.  /.  3492  (         ). 


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Along  the  road  between  Corpus  Christi  and  the  Oso,  altitude  20  feet, 
growing  on  grassy  banks.  Also  near  the  mouth  of  the  Nueces,  and  on 
the  hills  about  Kerrville.  The  roots  bore  tubercles  in  all  the  specimens 
examined. 

March  21  (1466). 

MEDICAGO  L.  Sp.  PL  778  (1753). 

Medicago  sativa  L.  Sp.  PL  778  (1753). 

Occurring  very  sparingly  about  the  streets  of  Kerrville,  altitude  1650 
feet. 

June  13  (1845)  ;  type  locality,  "  in  Hispaniae." 

MELILOTUS  Juss.  Gen.  PL  356  (1789). 
Melilotus  Indica  (L.)  All.  Fl.  Ped.  i :   308  (1785). 
Trifolium  Melilotus  Indica  L.  Sp.  PL  765   (1753). 
Along  the  banks  of  the  San  Antonio,  at  San  Antonio,  in  rich,  grassy, 
shaded  ground.     Apparently  not  plentiful. 
May  5  (1701)  ;  type  locality,  in  India. 

PSORALEA  L.  Sp.  PL  762  (1753). 
Psoralea  cuspidata  Pursh,  FL  Am.  Sept.  741  (1814). 

Psoralea  macrorhiza  Nutt.  in  Fras.  Cat.  (1813),  name  only. 
Psoralea  cryptocarpa  T.  &  G.  FL  N.  A.  i :   301  (1838). 

In  stony  limestone  ground  along  the  banks  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerr- 
ville, on  Town  Creek,  and  on  the  plateau  north  of  Kerrville,  altitude 
1625-1800  feet. 

April  28  (1673)  ;  type  locality,  "  in  upper  Louisiana." 
Psoralea  cyphocalyx  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Journ.  Nat.  Hist.  6:172  (1850). 

Plentiful,  but  scattered  on  the  stony  limestone  hillsides  about  Kerrville, 
altitude  1700-1800  feet. 

May  14  (1739);  type  locality,   "Rocky  prairies  on  the  Cibolo  and 
Pierdenales." 
Psoralea  esculenta,  Pursh,  FL  Am.  Sept.  475  (1814). 

This  plant  occurs  sparingly  on  the  rocky  hilltops,  at  an  altitude  of 
about  2000  feet.  Found  only  in  fruit.  Low,  6-8  inches. 

April  28  (1667);  type  locality,  "on  the  banks  of  the  Missouri." 
Psoralea  hypogea  Nutt. ;  T.  &  G.  FL  N.  A.  i  :  302  (1838.). 

Collected  on  a  stony  hillside  north  of  Kerrville,  altitude  1700  feet. 
Scarce. 

April  28  (1677)  ;  type  locality,    "  plains  of  the  Platte." 


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Psoralea  rhombifolia  T.  &  G..F1.  N.  A.  i  :   303  (1838). 

In  low,  sandy  ground  at  Corpus  Christ!  and  at  the  Oso,  growing  on  the 
beach.  Prostrate  and  widely  spreading.  Root  ending  in  a  deep-seated 
tuber.  Flowers  dark  bronze. 

April  9  (1462)  ;  type  locality,  Texas. 

EYSENHARDTIA  H.  B.  K.  Nov.  Gen.  6  :   489  (1823). 
Eysenhardtia  amorphoides  H.  B.  K.  Nov.  Gen   6  :  491  (1823). 

Plentiful  in  rich  shaded  ground  at  San  Antonio  along  the  river,  altitude 
600  feet;  beginning  to  flower  May  5.  Also  about  Kerrville  on  the 
Guadalupeand  on  hillsides,  altitude  1625-1900  feet. 

June  12  (1705);  type  locality,  "in  Regno  Mexicano,  prope  San 
Augustin  de  las  Cuevas  et  Guanaxuato." 

AMORPHA  L.  Sp.  PL  713  (1753). 

Amorpha  fruticosa  L.  Sp.  PL  713  (1753)- 

A  bush  6-8  feet  high,  with  slender,  wand-like  branches,  on  the  banks 
of  the  Guadalupe  in  moist  ground. 

April  19  (1596);  type  locality,  ''in  Carolina." 
Amorpha  subglabra  (A.  Gray). 

Amorpha  fruticosa  var  subglabra  A.   Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist. 

6:    174  (1850). 
Amorpha  Texana  Buckley,  Proc.  Acad.  Phila.  452  (1861). 

A  shrub  2-8  feet  high  branching  above,  young  branches  slightly 
pubescent,  channeled,  leaves  almost  horizontal,  or  slightly  ascending, 
peduncles  shorter  than  the  lower  pair  of  leaflets,  pubescent  with  scattered 
spreading  hairs;  leaflets  of  the  lower  leaves  often  alternate,  broadly 
oblong,  ovate-oblong,  or  orbicular-ovate,  on  petiolules  about  one-eighth  of 
their  length,  rounded  or  almost  truncate  at  base,  rounded  or  emargi- 
nate  at  apex,  reticulated,  smooth  and  shining  above,  the  sparse  pilose 
pubescence  beneath  especially  noticable  on  the  midvein,  profusely 
punctate  when  fresh ;  flowering  spikes  to  2-4  inches  long,  dense,  thick, 
calyx  campanulate,  glandular,  pubescent,  the  teeth  densely  so  with  short 
white  hairs  ;  flowers  rather  large,  twice  the  length  of  the  calyx,  deep 
purple,  stamens  much  exserted ;  pod  short,  more  than  half  enclosed  in 
the  calyx,  obovate,  rounded  on  the  ventral  side,  almost  straight  on  the 
dorsal. 

A  beautiful  and  well  marked  species,  readily  distinguished  by  the  large 
coriaceous  leaflets,  and  large  and  dense  spike  of  dark  purple  flowers, 
fringed  with  the  numerous  exserted  stamens,  which  bear  reddish  anthers. 
The  leaves  beneath  are  velvety  to  the  touch. 


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Growing  in  rich  ground  4  miles  north  of  Kerrville,  altitude  1800 
feet,  in  copses  along  a  dry  water  course.  This  station  is  about  20  miles 
south  of  the  type  station.  The  original  description  says  "  foliolis  ellip- 
ticis  retusis  supra  nitidis."  Reference  is  also  made  to  it  in  PI.  Wright. 
i :  50  under  A.  laevigata.  Buckley  collected  his  type  of  Amorpha 
Texana,  which  is  in  the  herbarium  of  the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences 
at  Philadelphia,  and  identical  with  my  specimens,  "near  Dead  Man's 
Hole,  on  the  Pierdenales,"  a  stream  seven  miles  south  of  Fredericksburg. 

May  21  (1772);  type  locality,   "on  a  creek  near  Fredericksburg." 

PAROSELA  Cav.  Desc.  185  (1803). 

[DALEA  Willd.  Sp.  PI.  3 :   1336  (1803),  not  P.  Br.  nor  Gaertn.]. 
Parosela  aurea  (Nutt.)  Britton,  Mem.  Torr.  Club,  5:   196  (1894). 
Dalea  aurea  Nutt.  Fras.  Cat.  (1813). 

Psoralea  aurea  Poir.  in  Lam.  Encycl.  Suppl.  4:   590  (1816). 
Abundant  in  dry,  stony  limestone  soil  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1650- 
1900  feet. 

June  14  (1856). 
Parosela  Hallii  (A.  Gray). 

Dalea  Hallii  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  8:   625  (1873). 
Found  sparingly  on  dry  stony  slopes  about  Kerrville,  altitude  about 
1800   feet.     The   plant   is   procumbent,  from  a  very  stout   and   long, 
branched,  perennial  root. 

June  25  (1911);  type  locality,   "on  limestone,  Dallas." 
Parosela  nana  (Torr.). 

Dalea  nana  Torr.;  A.  Gray,  PI.  Fendl.  4:   31  (1849;. 
In  sand  at  Flower  Bluff  near  the  mouth  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay,  at  sea 
level,  and  later  a  few  specimens  at  Corpus  Christi,  in  dry  soil  on  the 
plateau  near  the  Arroyo,  altitude  40  feet. 

April  9  (1535);  type  locality,    "sandy  soil,  Willow  Bar,  on  the  Ci- 
marron." 
Parosela  pogonathera  (A.  Gray). 

Dalea  pogonathera  A.  Gray,  PI.  Fendl.  4:  31  (1849). 
A  few  specimens  of  this  species  were  picked  up  on  a  grassy  bank  at 
the  Oso,  at  an  altitude  of  about  8  feet. 

March  21  (1482);  type  locality,  "around  Monterey,  Mexico." 

KUHNISTERA  Lam.  Encycl.  3  :   370  (1789). 
[PETALOSTEMON  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2:  48  (1803).] 
Kuhnistera  emarginata    (T.    &   G.)    Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.    PI.    192  • 
(1891). 


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Petalostemon  emarginatum  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  I  :   311   (1838). 

Found  first  in  dry  soil  near  the  Arroyo  at  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  40 
feet,  and  a  few  days  later,  growing  in  sand  along  the  beach,  almost  at 
the  water's  edge.  Much  branched  from  the  slender  tap-root,  which  is 
apparently  annual.  Branches  decumbent  for  a  short  distance,  then 
ascending,  giving  a  cup-shaped  outline  to  the  lower  part  of  the  plant. 

May  31  (1799)  \  tvPe  locality,  "Texas." 
Kuhnistera  multiflora  (Nutt.)  A.  A.  Heller,  Mem.  Torr.  Club,  5  : 

197  (1894). 

'  Petalostemon  multiflorus  Nutt.  Journ.  Phila.  Acad.  7  :   92  (1834). 

Along  the  beach  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay,  on  a  grassy  bank,  growing  in 
dense  clumps.  The  root  of  this  species  is  often  very  large  and  thick, 
sending  out  horizontal  branches  i  to  2  feet  long. 

June  2  (1814)  ;  type  locality,  "  in  the  plains  of  the  Red  river." 

Kuhnistera  pulcherrima  n.  n. 

(PLATE    2.) 

Petalostemon  virgatum  Scheele,  Linnaea,  21 :   401  (1848),  not  Nees 

(1839). 

Perennial,  root  stout  in  mature  specimens,  divergently  branched,  reddish 
brown;  stems  simple,  erect,  reddish,  especially  below,  smooth,  or 
sparingly  pubescent ;  stipules  filiform,  subulate ;  leaves  verticillas- 
trate,  smooth,  the  petioles  about  the  length  of  the  leaflets ;  petiolules 
very  short;  leaflets  one  to  three  pairs,  usually  a  half  inch  in  length, 
narrowly  linear,  slightly  narrowed  at  each  end,  margins  revolute  in 
dried  specimens,  upper  side  dull  green,  glandular,  especially  along 
the  margin ;  under  side  yellowish-green ;  peduncles  rather  short, 
two  to  four  inches  long  ;  heads  short-cylindrical,  an  inch  or  slightly 
more  in  length,  as  broad  as  long  when  in  flower ;  bracts  broadly 
ovate,  shorter  than  the  calyx,  with  brown,  acuminate  tips;  calyx 
salmon  or  pinkish,  with  pubescent  lines  on  each  side,  the  lanceolate, 
or  triangular-lanceolate,  acute  green  lobes  shorter  than  the  tube, 
densely  canescent ;  petals  deep  rose-purple ;  ovary  slightly  pubes- 
cent at  base. 

This  plant  has  quite  an  interesting  history.  It  is  very  plentiful  about 
Kerrville,  ranging  from  the  banks  of  the  Guadalupe  to  almost  to  the 
summits  of  the  hills.  I  at  once  recognized  it  as  something  strange,  and 
concluded  that  it  was  either  new  or  K.  decumbens,  and  as  it  did  not 
prove  to  be  that  species,  named  it  K.  pulcherrima  n.  sp.,  and  as  such 
distributed  it.  The  cause  of  this  error  is  that  Dr.  Gray  very  much 
underrated  the  excellent  work  of  Scheele,  refusing,  at  least  for  a  time,  to 


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recognize  some  very  good  species  which  he  described.  In  this  case  he 
consigned  Scheele's  plant  to  synonomy,  making  it  equal  to  Petalostemon 
violaceus  var.  pubescens  A.  Gray,  a  variety  which  was  never  published, 
and  according  to  Gray's  own  statement,  has  no  characters  to  separate  it 
from  the  species,  except  more  pubescence  on  the  calyx.  In  one  of  the 
works,  I  think  either  PL  Wright,  or  PL  FendL,  I  came  across  a  reference 
to  Scheele's  species,  which  led  me  to  think  that  my  plant  might  be  the 
same.  Upon  referring  to  the  original  description  in  Linnaea,  it  became 
evident  that  Petalostemon  virgatum,  which  name,  however,  was  used 
previously  by  Nees,  is  an  excellent  species,  and  agrees  in  all  essential 
points  with  my  specimens.  New  Braunfels,  his  type  locality,  is  some 
sixty  or  seventy  miles  southeast  of  Kerrville,  but  the  character  of  the 
country  is  the  same.  The  plant  can  be  distinguished  from  K.  purpurea 
(violaceus}  at  a  glance. 
June  14  (1857). 

INDIGOFERA  L.  Sp.  PL  751  (1753). 
Indigofera   leptosepala  Nutt. ;  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :   298  (1838). 

Growing  in  sand  along  the  beach  near  the  Oso  at  sea  level.  The  long, 
ashy-gray  stems  are  procumbent  and  spreading.  Seen  also  at  San  An- 
tonio in  open  ground  at  600  feet,  and  at  Kerrville  in  stony,  gravelly 
ground  at  1600  feet. 

April  9  (1544) ;  type  locality,  "  plains  of  Arkansas." 

SESBANIA  Pers. ;   Desv.  Journ.  Bot.  3  :   /.  4  (1813-14). 

Sesbania  macrocarpa  Muhl.  Cat.  65  (1813). 
Darwinia  exalt ata  Raf.  FL  Lud.  106  (1817). 

Found  sparingly  in  wet  ground  on  the  right  bank  of  the  San  Antonio, 
at  the  S.  P.  bridge.  Young  plants  i  to  2  feet  high.  The  flowers  are 
yellow  in  these  specimens,  instead  of  "yellow  and  red,  dotted  with 
purple." 

June  9  (1831);  type  locality,   "Car.  Missis." 

ASTRAGALUS  L.  Sp.  PL  755  (1753). 
Astragalus  Brazoensis  Buckley,  Proc.  Acad.  Phila.  452  (1861). 

Plentiful  on  a  grassy  bank  at  the  "Blind  Oso,"  and  later  at  the  Oso, 
in  a  cultivated  field;  altitude  about  10  feet.  The  older  specimens  were 
long  and  procumbent,  the  early  smaller  ones  erect. 

March  21  (1483)  ;  type  locality,  "  western  Texas." 


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Astragalus  leptocarpus  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i  :  334  (1838). 

In  sandy  soil  near  and  along  the  beach  of  both  Nueces  and  Corpus 
Christ!  Bays.  Usually  small,  only  five  or  six  inches  high. 

March  12  (1443);  type,  locality,  "  near  the  Sabine  river." 
Astragalus  Nuttallianus  DC.  Prodr.  2  :   289  (1825). 

Astragalus  micranthus  Nutt.  Journ.  Acad.  Phila.  3:    122   (1821), 
not  Desv. 

Abundant  in  open  ground  at  Corpus  Christi;  and  always  procumbent, 
not  "  ascending  or  erect"  —  Coulter.  A  poorly  prepared  specimen,  not 
made  with  a  view  to  showing  the  character  of  the  plant,  would  make  it 
appear  as  if  erect. 

March  5  (1380);  type  locality,   "  naked  places  in  the  prairies  of  Red 
river  and  the  Arkansas." 
Astragalus  Wrightii  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Journ.  Nat.  Hist.  6  :  176  (1850). 

In  dry  stony  ground  along  Town  Creek  and  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerr- 
ville,  altitude  1625  ^eet>  growing  near  trees,  but  not  directly  shaded. 
Apparently  a  rare  species. 

April  23  (1633);  type  locality,  "  near  Austin." 

MEIBOMIA  Adans.  Fam.  PL  2:  509  (1763). 
[PLEUROBOLUS  St.  Hil.  Bull.  Soc.  Philom.  1812,  192  (1812).] 

[DESMODIUM  Desv.  Journ.  Bot.  3:    122  (1813).] 

Meibomia  paniculata  pubens  (T.  &  G.)  A.  M.  Vail,  Bull.  Torr. 
Club,  19:   112  (1892). 

Desmodium  paniculatum  var.  pubens  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.    i  :   364 


Desmodium  pubens  Young,  Fl.  Texas  233  (1873). 
On  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  in  rich,  open  ground. 
Scarce. 

June  20  (1893);  type  locality,  "Tampa  Bay,  Florida." 
Meibomia  Tweedyi  (Britton)  A.  M.  Vail,  Bull.  Torr.  Club.  19:   113 
(1892). 

Desmodium    Tweedyi  Britton,    Trans.    N.  Y.    Acad.    Sc.  8  :    183 

(1890). 

Specimens  from  the  right  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1600  feet, 
growing  in  gravelly  ground,  have  been  referred  to  this  species.     The 
flowers  are  yellow.     Scarce. 
June  13  (1846);  type  locality,  Tom  Green  county. 

LESPEDEZA  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2:    70  (1803). 
Lespedeza  repens  (L.)  Bart.  Prodr.  Fl.  Phila.  2:   77  (1818). 
Hedysarum  repens  L.  Sp.  PL  749  (1753). 


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Erect  or  reclining ;  rather  plentiful  in  dry  stony  ground  along  Town 
Creek  and  on  the  bluff  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1625- 
1650  feet. 

June  26  (1914). 

VICIA  L.  Sp.  PL  734(1753). 
Vicia  Ludoviciana  Nutt. ;  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :   271  (1838). 

Common  about  Corpus  Christi  in  sandy  ground,  from  sea  level  to  40 
feet. 

March  27  (1513);  type  locality,  "grassy  places  on  the  Red  river." 

RHYNCHOSIA  Lour.  FL  Cochin.  562  (1793). 
Rhynchosia  minima  (L.)  DC.  Prodr.  2  :  385  (1825). 
Dolichos  min'mus  L.  Sp.  PL  726  (1753). 

At  San  Antonio,  along  the  S.  P.  R.  R.,  near  the  bridge.  Not  given 
in  Coulter's  Manual  of  Western  Texas.  Growing  in  a  tangled  mass. 

May  5  (1695);  type  locality,   "in  Jamaica." 
Rhynchosia  Texana  T.  &  G.  FL  N.  A.  i :  687  (1840). 

About  Kerrville,  in  stony  ground  along  the  banks  of  the  Guadalupe, 
and  in  rich  ground,  edges  of  cultivated  fields. 

June  14  (1861);  type  locality,    "Texas." 

GERANIACEAE. 

GERANIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  676  (1753). 
Geranium  Carolinianum  L.  Sp.  PL  682  (1753). 

In  an  arroyo  southeast  of  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  about  15  feet,  and 
about  the  streets  of  Kerrville.  A  low,  spreading  form. 

March  27  (1510)  ;  type  locality,  "in  Carolina,  Virginia." 

ERODIUM  L'Her.  Geran.  /.  i  (1787). 

Erodium  cicutarium  (L.)  L'Her.;  Ait.  Hort.  Kew.  2:  414  (1789). 
Geranium  cicutarium  L.  Sp.  PL  680  (1753). 

In  rich,  shaded,  low  ground  on  the  right  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at 
Kerrville.  Seen  only  at  this  place,  and  scarce  there. 

May  14  (1743);  type  locality,  "in  Europae  sterilibus  cultis." 
Erodium  Texanum  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Journ.  Nai.  Hist.  6  :   157  (1850). 

In  dry,  open  ground  along  Town  Creek.  Some  of  the  plants  were 
very  large,  procumbent,  orbicular  in  outline,  about  a  foot  in  diameter. 

April  28  (1675);  type  locality,  "small  thickets  in  prairies  above 
Victoria,  and  in  patches  in  rocky  soil  at  New  Braunfels." 


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OXALIDACEAE. 

OXALISL.  Sp.  Pl.433(i7S3\ 
Oxalis  dichondraefolia  A.  Gray,  PL  Wright,  i  :   27  (1852). 

Occasional  around  Corpus  Christi,  but  growing  in  profusion  in  open 
ground  at  the  "  Blind  Oso." 

March  12  (1442)  ;  type  locality,  "  Turkey  Creek  to  the  prairies  of  the 
San  Felipe,  and  on  the  Rio  Grande." 

LINACEAE 

LINUM  L.  Sp.  PI.  277  (1753).  ^ 
Linum  multicaule  Hook. ;   T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i  ;   678  (1840). 

Linum  selaginoides  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i  :    205  (1838),  not  Lam. 

Plentiful  in  dry  open  ground  at  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  10-40  feet. 
The  earliest  specimens  are  simple,  one  flowered,  flowers  rather  large, 
dark  orange  in  color. 

March  5  (1389);  type  locality,   "Texas." 
Linum  rigidum  Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  210  (1814). 

In  low,  sandy  ground  at  Corpus  Christi,  sea  level,  and  plentiful  on  the 
summits  of  ridges  around  Kerrville.  Flowers  orange  color,  lighter  than 
those  of  L.  multicame.  In  Coulter's  Manual  of  Western  Texas,  L. 
rigidum  is  placed  under  the  section  "  *  *  flowers  rather  small."  The 
flowers  are  usually  an  inch  in  diameter  as  are  those  of  the  one  placed 
next  to  it,  L.  Berlandieri. 

April-June  (1496)  ;  type  locality,  "on  the  Missouri." 
Linum  rupestre  Engelm.;  A.  Gray,  Bost.    Jour.   Nat.   Hist.  6:   232 

(1850). 

On  the  steep  stony  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  altitude 
1630  feet,  profusely  branching  from  a  perennial  root. 

May  7  (1715);  type  locality,  "growing  from  the  crevices  of  naked 
rocks,  New  Braunfels." 

MALPIGHIACEAE. 

THRYALLIS  L.  Sp.  PI.  Ed.  2,  554  (1762),  not  Ad.  Ju^s. 

[GALPHIMIA  Cav.  Ic.  Desc.  PI.  5:   61  (1799).] 

Thryallis  angustifolia  (Benth.)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  89  (1891). 
Galphimia  angustifolia  Benth.  Bot.  Sulph.  9,  /.  5  (1844). 
Galphimia  linifolia  A.  Gray,Bost.  Journ.  Nat.  Hist.  6:  166  (1850). 


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On  rocky  ledges  of  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville,  and 
on  stony,  gracsy  hillsides,  altitude  1640-1800  feet.  Tnis  is  the  G.  lini- 
folia  of  Gray  from  the  type  locality,  "  rocky  hills  and  prairies  of  the 
Upper  Guadalupe." 

May  14  (1737);  type  locality,  "  Cape  San  Lucas." 

MALPIGHIA  L.  Sp.  PL  425  (1753). 
Malpighia  glabra  L.  Sp.  PI.  425  (1753). 

Found  sparingly  along  Nueces  Bay  and  in  Corpus  Christi,  as  a  suf- 
fruticose  plant  12-15  inches  high,  although  good -sized  bushes  were 
noticed  in  cultivation. 

March  5  (1396);  type  locality,  in  tropical  America,  "in  Jamaica, 
Brasilia,  Surinamo,  Curacao." 

ZYGOPHYLLACEAE. 

PORLIERA  Ruiz  and  Pav.  Prodr.  55  /.  p  (1794). 
Porliera  angustifolia  (Engelm.)  A.  Gray,  PI.  Wright,  i:   28  (1852). 

Gitiacnm  angustifolium  Engelm.  Wisliz.  Rep.  29  (1848). 
In  shady  soil  near  the  mouth  of  the  Nueces  river,  sea  level  to  30  feet. 
At  a    little  distance  this  shrub   or   tree   presents   the  appearance   of  a 
Conifer,  its  dark  green  leaves,  and  ascending  branches  giving  it  a  very 
peculiar  appearance. 

April  3  (1524);  type  locality,   "about  Parras,"  Mexico. 

TRIBULUS  L.  Sp.  PI.  386  (1753). 
Tribulus  maximus  L.  Sp.  PI.  386  (1753). 
Tribitlus  lerrestris  Muhl.  Cat.  43  (1818). 
Tribulus  trijugatus  Nutt.  Gen.  i:   277(1818). 
Kallstroemia  maxima  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i  :    213  (1838). 
Plentiful  in  rich  ground  about  Kerrville,  altitude    1650  feet.     Also 
abundant  at  Corpus  Christi.     Flowers  open  at  about  10  o'clock  on  clear 
mornings  and  nearly  an  hour  later  when  cloudy,  remaining  open  about 
two  hours. 

May  23  (1777)  ;   type  locality,    "  in  Jamaicae  aridis." 

RUTACEAE. 

THAMNOSMA  Torr.  &  Frem.  in  Frem.  2d  Rep.  313  (         ). 
Thamnosma  Texanum  (A.  Gray)  Torr.  Mex.  Bound.  Surv.  2:   42 

'    (^59). 


Rutosma  Texanak.  Gray,  Gen.  Fl.  Am.  Bor.  Orien.  2  :    144  (1849). 

In  gravelly  ground  along  Town  Creek,  1600  feet  and  on  the  hilltops 
in  rich  rocky  ground  2000  feet,  but  not  observed  at  intermediate  eleva- 
tions. A  homely  little  spreading  plant,  the  greenish-yellow  flowers  ap- 
parently never  fully  expanding. 

April  23  (1627).    ^ 

ZANTHOXYLUM  L.  Sp.  PL  270  (1753). 

Zanthoxylum  Fagara  (L.)  Sargent,  Gard.  and  Forest,  3:  186  (1890). 
Schinus  Fagara  L.  Sp.  PL  389  (1753). 
Pterota   subspinosa   P.  Br.   Civ.  &  Nat.  Hist.  Jam.  146,  /.  f.f.  I 

(1755). 

Fagara  Pterota  L.  Amoen.  5  :   396  (         ). 
Zanthoxylum  Pterota  H.  B.  K.  Nov.  Gen.  6:   3  (1823). 
Collected  near  Gregory,  San  Patricio  county,  altitude  35  feet,  where 
it  is  plentiful  as  a  tall  shrub  or  small  tree.     The  leaves  of  these  speci- 
mens are  much  smaller  than  are  those  from  Florida,  and  the  flower  clus- 
ters much  shorter.     The  bark  is  whitened,  and  in  that  particular  at  least, 
agrees  with  Buckley's  Z.  hirsutum,  the  type  of  which  was  collected  in  the 
same  region,  near  Corpus  Christi,  but  he  does  not  state  on  which  side  of 
the  Bay. 

April  14  (1566);    "in  Jamaicae  campestribus. " 

PTELEA  L.  Sp.  PL  118  (1753). 
Ptelea  trifoliata  L.  Sp.  PL  118  (1753). 

In  gravelly  ground  along  Town  Creek,  altitude  1620  feet. 

May  3  (1690) ;   type  locality,  "  in  Virginia." 
Ptelea  trifoliata  mollis  T.  &  G.  FL  N.  A.  i :   680  (1840). 

In  a  copse  at  San  Antonio,  along  the  S.  P.  R.  R.,  where  it  grows  in 
abundance. 

April  17  (1582);  type  locality,  "Texas." 

SIMARUBACEAE. 

CASTELA  Turp.  Ann.  Mus.  Paris,  7  :   78,  /.  5  (1806). 
Castela  Nicholsoni  Hook.  Bot.  Misc.  i :   271,  /.  56  (1830). 

One  of  the  chapparral  bushes;  plentiful  about  Corpus  Christi,  altitude 
10-40  feet.  Apparently  not  reported  so  far  northeast  before,  as  iis  range 
is  given  as  "  gravelly  bluffs  of  the  lower  Rio  Grande  from  Eagle  Pass 
downwards. ' ' — Coulter. 

March  8  (1402);  type  locality,  West  Indies. 


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MELIACEAE. 

MELIA  L.  Sp.  PL  384  (1753). 

Melia  Azederach  L.  Sp.  PI.  384  (1753). 

This  ornamental  tree  is  cultivated  extensively  at  Corpus  Christ!  and 
at  other  places  in  Texas.  A  single  tree  was  found  growing  along  the 
roadside,  between  Corpus  Christ!  and  Nueces,  altitude  30  feet.  At 
Corpus  Christi  it  begins  to  bloom  about  the  middle  of  March,  but  at 
Kerrville,  270  miles  northwest  and  1600  feet  higher,  not  until  the  latter 
part  of  April. 

April  3  (1525);  type  locality,   "in  Syria." 

POLYGALACEAE. 

POLYGALA  L.  Sp.  PL  701  (1753). 
Polygala  alba  Nutt.  Gen.  2:  87  (1818). 

Very  abundant  in  the  stony  limestone  ground  about  Kerrville,  ranging 
from  the  banks  of  Town  Creek  to  almost  the  highest  points  on  the  hill- 
sides, 1650-1900  feet. 

April  24  (1645) ;  type  locality,  "on  the  plains  of  the  Missouri.1' 

KRAMERIA  Loefl.  It.  Hisp.  195  (1758). 

Krameria  secundiflora  DC.  Prodr.  i :  341  (1824). 

Kramer ia  lanceolata  Torr.  Ann.  Lye.  N.  Y.  2 :    1 68  (1828). 

Very  plentiful,  and  having  the  same  range  as  Polygala  alba,  except 
that  it  does  not  reach  as  great  an  altitude,  its  limit  being  about  1800 
feet,  stopping  where  the  abrupt  ascent  of  the  ridges  begins.  The  roots 
are  usually  thick,  sending  out  very  long  branches  which  penetrate  deep 
into  the  hard,  stony  ground.  Flowers  silky,  maroon-colored. 

April  23  (1625);  type  locality,   "  in  Mexico." 

EUPHORBIACEAE. 

PHYLLANTHUS  L.  Sp.  PL  981  (1753). 
Phyllanthus  polygonoides  Spreng.  Syst.  3 :   23  (1826). 

Plentiful  in  gravelly  ground  about  Kerrville,  at  low  and  medium  ele- 
vations, 1625-1700  feet. 

April  25  (1640);  type  locality,  Arkansas. 


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CROTON  L.  Sp.  PL  1004  (1753). 
Croton  balsamiferus  Willd.  Sp.  PL  4:  548  (1805). 

Growing  among  chapparral  at  the  "Blind  Oso."  Leaves  somewhat 
viscid.  A  bush  3  or  4  feet  high,  at  an  altitude  of  10-30  feet. 

March  21  (1477);  type  locality,  West  Indies. 
Croton  capitatus  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2:   214  (1803). 

Very  abundant  in  dry  ground  near  the  Arroyo  at  Corpus  Christi,  in 
company  with  Gomphrena  Neallyi. 

May  30  (1800) ;  type  locality,  "  in  regione  Illinoensi." 
Croton  fruticulosus  Engelm. ;  Torr.  Mex.  Bound  Surv.  194  (1859). 

In  rich  shaded  ground  on  both  banks  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville. 
The  leaves  on  these  specimens  are  less  pubescent  than  those  of  the  type, 
probably  due  to  the  fact  that  the  plants  grew  in  moister  and  more  shaded 
situations. 

June  12  (1842);  type  locality,  western  Texas  and  northern  Mexico. 

Croton  maritimus  Walt.  FL  Car.  239  (1788). 

In  sand  along  the  beach  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay,  and  the  Gulf  coast  of 
Mustang  Island,  at  sea  level. 

March — May  (1423);   type  locality,  Carolina. 
Croton  monanthogynus  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2:   215  (1803). 

Very  common  at  Kerrville  along  roadsides  and  in  cultivated  fields;  in 
rich  ground,  altitude  1650-1700  feet.  Seen  also  at  Corpus  Christi. 

June  30  (1932);   type  locality,  in  Tennessee,  near  Nashville. 
Croton  punctatus  Jacq.  Coll.  i :    166  (1786). 

Croton  argyranthemus  Michx.  FL  Bor.  Am.  2  :    215  (1803). 

In  sandy  soil  at  Flower  Bluff,  altitude  about  15  feet,  growing  among 
the  scrub  oaks. 

April  9  (1547). 
Croton  suaveolens  Torr.  Mex.  Bound.  Surv.  2:   194  (1859). 

At  sea  level  along  Nueces  Bay,  Nueces  county,  among  chapparral. 
A  branching  bush  about  four  feet  high. 

March  12  (1429);  type  locality,  "on  the  Rio  Grande." 
Croton  Texensis  (Klotzch)  Muell.  Arg.  in  DC.  Prodr.    15 ;  Part  2, 

692  (1862). 

Hendecandra  Texensis  Klotzch  in  Erichs.  Archiv.  i  :    125  (1841). 

Common  in  rich,  open  ground  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1650  feet. 
Also  seen  at  Corpus  Christi  and  San  Antonio. 

June  15  (1863);  type  locality,  Texas. 


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ACALYPHA  L.  Sp.  PI.  1003  (1753). 
Acalypha  Lindheimeri  Muell.  Arg.  Linnaea  34:  47  (1865). 

Acalypha   phleoides    Torr.    Mex.    Bound  Surv.    2:    199    (1859), 

not  Cav. 

In  stony  and  gravelly  ground  along  the  Guadalupe  and  Town  Creek 
at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet. 

May  3  (1691);  type  locality,  Texas. 
Acalypha  radians  Torr.  Mex.  Bound  Surv.  2  :   200  (1859). 

Common  in  bare  exposed  ground  near  the  beach  at  Corpus  Chnsti, 
where  it  grows  prostrate  from  a  tough,  stout  root.  Along  Nueces  Bay, 
in  rich  ground  where  it  was  more  protected,  the  stems  were  more 
slender,  ascending. 

April  3  (1519);  type  locality,  "western  Texas,  especially  along  the 
Rio  Grande." 

TRAGIA  L.  Sp.  PL  980  (1753). 
Tragia  ramosa  Torr.  Ann.  Lye.  N.  Y.  2 :   245  (1824). 

Tragia  stylaris  Muell.  Arg.  Linnaea,  34:    180  (1860). 
Rather  common  in  stony  ground  at  Kerrville,  along  Town  Creek  and 
the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1600-1650  feet. 

May  7  (1716) ;  type  locality,   "  sources  of  the  Canadian  ?" 

JATROPHA  L.  Sp.  PI.  1006  (1753). 

Jatropha  spathulata  (Ortega)  Muell.  Arg.  in  DC.  Prodr.  15  :  Part 
2,  1081  (1862). 

Mozinna  spathulata  Ortega,  Dec.  8  :    105,  /.  ij  (1797). 
Very  abundant  at  Corpus  Christi ;  altitude,  sea  level  to  40  feet.     When 
cut,  a  wine  colored  juice  exudes.     Called  "leather  wood."     Low,  1-2 
feet  high,  stems  soft  and  yielding. 

April  ii  (1550);  type  locality,  Mexico. 

STILLINGIA  L.  Mant.  i :   19  (1767). 
Stillingia  angustifolia  (Muell.  Arg.)  Engelm. 

In  stony  or  gravelly  ground  about  Kerrville,  where  it  is  plentiful,  alti- 
tude 1600-1650  feet. 

May  7  (1714). 
Stillingia  sylvatica  L.  Mant.  i  :   126  (1767). 

Growing  in  sand  at  Flower  Bluff,  and  plentiful  on  Mustang  Island  on 
the  low,  western  shore,  at  Rope's  Pass.  Leaves  smaller  and  blunter  than 
usual. 

April  9  (1539);  type  locality,  "  in  Carolinae  pinetis." 


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ARGYTHAMNIA  P.  Br.  Civ.  &  Nat.  Hist.  Jam.  338  (1755). 
Argythamnia  humilis  (Engelm.  &  Gray)  Muell.  Arg.  Linnaea,  34  : 
147  (1865). 
Aphora  humilis  Engelm.  &  Gray,  Bost.  Journ.  Nat.  Hist.  5  :    262 


Collected  at  the  Oso  on  a  grassy  bank,  and   in    a   cultivated  field. 
Procumbent,  older  plants  nearly  two  feet  long; 

March  21  (1484)  ;   type  locality,   "  in  hard  clayey  soil,  west  of  the 
Brazos." 
Argythamnia  mercurialina  (Nutt.)  Muell.  Arg.  Linnaea,  34:   148 

(1865). 

Aphora  mercurialina  Nutt.    Trans.  Am.   Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  5:    174 


Scattered,  in  rich  and  usually  shaded  ground  about  Kerrville,  alti- 
tude 1625-1800  feet. 

April  24  (1648)  ;  type  locality,  "  prairies  of  the  Red  river. 

EUPHORBIA  L.  Sp.  PI.  450  (1753). 
Euphorbia    angusta   Engelm.;    Torr.  Mex.   Bound.   Surv.   2:    189 


Euphorbia  NeallyiCovAt.  &  Fisher,  Cont.  U.  S.  Nat.  Herb.  2:   391 
(1894). 

In  dry,  stony  ground  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1625-1900  feet. 
Plentiful  but  scattered. 

May  14  (1738). 

Euphorbia  campestris  Cham.  &  Schlecht.  Linnaea  5  :  84  (1830). 
Euphorbia  esulaeformis  Schauer,  Linnaea,  20:    729  (1847). 

On  the  steep,  stony  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  altitude 
1625  feet.  The  numerous  erect  stems  from  a  stout,  perennial  root. 
Plentiful  in  this  one  situation,  but  not  noticed  elsewhere. 

April   19  (1599);  type  locality,   "in  planitie   inter   Tlachichuca  et 
Tepetitlan." 
Euphorbia  dentata  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2:   211  (1803). 

Plentiful  in  rich  ground  at  one  time  broken  for  a  street,  near  Corpus 
Christi.  Also  abundant  on  the  summits  of  hills  about  Kerrville.  A  much 
lower  form  than  usual.  The  broader  and  shorter  leaves  nearly  entire. 

March  27  (1505)  ;  type  locality,  in  Tennessee,  near  Nashville. 
Euphorbia  Fendleri  T.  &  G.  Pac.  R.  R.  Rep.  2  :   175  (1855). 

Plentiful  on  a  dry,  stony  slope  along  Town  Creek,  at  Kerrville,  alti- 
tude 1630  feet.  The  slender  stems  prostrate  from  a  perennial  root. 

June  16  (1870). 


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Euphorbia  maculata  L.  Sp.  PL  455  (1753). 

In  low  rich  ground  at  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  40  feet,  and  at  Kerr- 
ville  in  the  gravelly  bed  of  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1600  feet. 

May  30  (1804);  type  locality,  North  America. 
Euphorbia  nutans  Lag.  Gen.  &  Sp.  17  (1816). 

Euphorbia  Pre slii  Guss.  Fl.  Sic.  Prodr.  i :   539  (1827). 

In  the  gravelly  bed  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet. 
Ascending,  usually  stout  and  branching. 

June  27  (1922). 
Euphorbia  obtusata  Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  606  (1814). 

In  a  grassy  meadow  at  the  Oso,  altitude  10  feet.  A  rather  common 
plant  about  Corpus  Christi,  in  rich  ground ;  often  large  and  spreading. 

March  21  (1475);  tvPe  locality,  Virginia,  near  Staunton. 
Euphorbia  polycarpa  Benth.  Bot.  Sulph.  50  (1844). 

Prostrate,  growing  in  open  ground  at  Corpus  Christi,  more  often 
along  the  railroad  embankment  between  the  ties. 

March  20  (1463)  ;  type  locality,   "  Bay  of  Magdalena." 
Euphorbia  prostrata  Ait.  Hort.  Kew.  Ed.  i,  2  :    139  (         ). 

Prostrate  and  spreading,  in  gravel,  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe, 
at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet.  My  specimens  agree  well  with  several 
plants  from  Mexico,  but  do  not  altogether  with  the  majority  of  the  speci- 
mens noticed,  which  are  from  Florida  and  the  eastern  part  of  the  coun- 
try, and  much  smoother.  Perhaps  a  distinct  species. 

June  27  (1918). 
Euphorbia  serpens  H.B.K.  Nov.  Gen.  2:  52  (1817). 

On  the  plateau  near  the  Oso,  in  rich  ground,  altitude  30  feet.  Com- 
mon about  Corpus  Christi,  in  bare,  open  ground. 

March  21  (1467);  type  locality,  "  Cumanae  prope  Bordones  et  Punta 
Araya. ' ' 
Euphorbia  tetrapora  Engelm.  Mex.  Bound.  Surv.  2:   191  (1859). 

Plentiful  in  an  arroyo  southeast  of  Corpus  Christi,  growing  with  E. 
obtusata.  Low  and  spreading,  dark  dull  green  in  color. 

March  27  (1509)  ;  range,  Georgia  to  Texas. 

ANACARDIACEAE. 

RHUSL.  Sp.  PI.  265  (1753). 
Rhus  aromatica  Ait.  Hort.  Kew.  i  :   367  (1789). 

Rhus  Canadensis  Marsh.  Arb.  Am.  129  (1785),  not  Mill. 
A  branching  bush,  occurring  frequently  on  hillsides  about  Kerrville, 
altitude  1625-2000  feet. 
April  26  (1658). 


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Rhus  radicans  L.  Sp.  PI.  266  (1753). 

Rhus  Toxicodendron  radicans  Marsh.  Arb.  Am.  131  (1785) 

On  stony  hillsides  near  Kerrville,  altitude  about  1800  feet.  This  was 
always  a  simple,  erect  shrub,  about  two  feet  high,  with  dull  green,  cori- 
aceous leaves. 

April  28  (1658);  type  locality,   "in  Virginia,  Canada." 

AQUIFOLIACEAE. 

ILEXL.  Sp.  PL  125  (1753). 
Ilex  decidua  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  241  (1788). 

Plentiful  through  northeastern  and  central  Texas,  in  low,  damp  ground. 
Collected  without  leaves,  but  bearing  an  abundance  of  orange-colored  or 
red  fruit,  at  Waco,  McLennan  county,  altitude  400  feet,  and  on  April 
30  a  few  specimens  in  leaf  were  obtained  along  Bear  Creek,  Kerr  county, 
altitude  1800  feet. 

March  2  (1374);  type  locality,  Carolina. 

HIPPOCASTANACEAE. 

UNGNADIA  Endl.  Atakt.  Bot.  /.  36  (1833). 
Ungnadia  speciosa  Endl.  Atakt.  Bot.  /.  36  (1833). 

Along  the  stony,  steep  banks  of  the  Guadalupe  and  Town  Creek,  near 
Kerrville.  On  nearly  all  the  bushes  observed,  the  flowers  appeared  be- 
fore the  leaves. 

April  19  (1598);  type  locality,  in  Texas. 

SAPINDACEAE. 

SAPINDUS  L.  Sp.  PL  367  (1753). 
Sapindus  marginatus  Willd.  Enum.  432  (1809). 

Sapindus  acuminatus  Raf.  New  Fl.  N.  A.  Part  3,  22  (1836). 
Sapindus  f ale atus  Raf.  Med.  Bot.  2  :   261  (1830). 
A  slender,  spreading  tree  about  twenty  feet  high ;  plentiful  along  the 
Guadalupe  about  Kerrville. 
June  22  (1901). 

CARDIOSPERMUM  L.  Sp.  PL  366  (1753). 
Cardiospermum  Halicacabum  L.  Sp.  PL  366  (1753). 

Creeping  over  bushes  about  Corpus  Christi,  where  it  is  rather  plentiful. 
June  2  (1817);  type  locality,  "in  Indiis." 


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RHAMNACEAE. 

RHAMNUS  L.  Sp.  PL  193  (1753)- 
Rhamnus  Caroliniana  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  101  (1788). 

In  moist,  rich  ground  along  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerr- 
ville,  altitude  1600-1650  feet.  A  bush  about  six  feet  high. 

May  14  (1740);   type  locality,  Carolina. 

CEANOTHUS  L.  Sp.  PL  195  (1753)- 
Ceanothus  ovatus  Desf.  Hist.  Arb.  2:   381  (1809). 

Ceanothus  ovalis  Bigel.  FL  Bost.  Ed.  2,  92  (1824). 
On  the  ledges  of  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville.     A  low, 
branching  bush,  about  two  feet  high. 
April  19  (1593). 

COLUBRINA  Rich. ;  Brongn.  Ann.  Sc.  Nat.  Ser.  i,  10:  368,  /.  75, 

/.J(i827). 

Colubrina  Texensis  (T.  &  G.)  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Journ.  Nat.  Hist.  6  : 
169  (1850). 

Rhamnus  (?)  Texensis  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :  263  (1838). 
Very  plentiful  about  Corpus  Christi,  where  it  is  usually  a  procumbent, 
twisted,  spreading  bush. 

March  in  flower,  June  in  fruit  (1452)  ;  type  locality,  "Texas." 

VITACEAE. 

VITIS  L.  Sp.  PL  202  (1753). 
Vitis  cordifolia  Michx.  FL  Bor.  Am.  2:   231  (1803). 

Climbing  high  over  bushes  and  trees  along  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville. 

May  15  (1750);  type  locality,  not  given.     Range,  from  Pennsylvania 
to  Florida. 
Vitis  monticola  Buckley  Proc.  Acad.  Phila.  450  (1861). 

Abundant  along  hillsides  and  on  summits  about  Kerrville.  Shrubby, 
but  climbing  over  low  bushes.  Apparently  does  not  grow  on  low  ground. 
Leaves  less  pubescent  than  in  Buckley's  type. 

April  23  (1628);  type  locality,  "mountainous  districts  of  Burnet, 
Bell,  and  Hays  counties." 

AMPELOPSIS  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i  :    159  (1803). 
Ampelopsis  arborea  (L.)  Rusby,  Mem.  Torr.  Club,  5  :   221  (1894). 


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Vitis  arborea  L.  Sp.  PI.  203  (1753). 

Ampelopsis  bipinnata  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i :    160  (1803). 

Cissus  stans  Pers.  Syn.  i :    143  (1805). 

Vitis  bipinnata  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :   243  (1838). 
Climbing  profusely  over  bushes  at  the  Southern  Pacific  bridge  at  San 
Antonio. 

June  9  (1829);  type  locality,  "in  Carolina,  Virginia." 
Ampelopsis  cordata  Michx.  Fl.  Bor  Am.  i :   159  (1803). 

Cissus  Ampelopsis  Pers.  Syn.  i :    142  (1805). 

Vitis  indivisa  Willd.  Berl.  Baumz.  Ed.  2,  538  (1811). 
Climbing  over  bushes  on  the  edge  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville. 
June  12  (1841);  type  locality,  Illinois. 

MALVACEAE. 

ABUTILON  Gsertn.  Fr.  &  Sem.  2:   251,  /.  135  (1791). 

Abutilon  Berlandieri  A.  Gray. 

Stem  rather  tall  and  stout,  suffruticose  below.  Scattered  in  low  ground 
at  Corpus  Christi.  The  flowers  open  about  five  o'clock  and  close  when 
it  becomes  dark. 

June  5  (1824). 

Abutilon  incanum  (Link)    Sweet,  Hort.  Brit,  i  :  53  (1826). 
Sida  incana  Link,  Enum.  Hort.  Berol.  2  :    204  (1822). 
Abutilon  Texense  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i  :   231  (1838). 
Abutilon  Nuttalliil.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :   231  (1838). 

Apparently  common  throughout  southern  Texas.  Usually  rather 
slender,  but  stout,  branching,  two  to  four  feet  high.  Flowers  opening 
early  in  the  afternoon  and  remaining  open  for  several  hours.  Collected 
at  San  Antonio,  altitude  600  feet. 

June  9  (1837)  ;  type  locality,  Hawaiian  Islands. 
Abutilon  Wrightii  A.  Gray. 

Prostrate  along  the  beach  at  Corpus  Christi,  near  the  upper  end  of  the 
bay,  altitude  10  feet.  Flowers  large,  an  inch  or  more  in  diameter,  open- 
ing just  before  dark. 

May  29  (1793). 

CALLIRHOE  Nutt.  Journ.  Acad.  Phila.  2  :   181  (1821). 

Callirhoe  digitata  Nutt.  Journ.  Acad.  Phila.  2:   181  (1821). 

On  stony  limestone   ridges   and   summits  along  Bear   Creek,   Kerr 


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county,  altitude   1800    feet.     Flowers  white  or  pale  lilac.     Apparently 
scattered  throughout  Kerr  county  in  similar  situations. 

April  30  (1685*1  ;  type  locality,  "near  Fort  Smith." 
Callirhoe  involucrata  (Nutt.)  ;  A.  Gray,  Mem.  Am.  Acad.  (II.)  4: 

15  (1848). 

Nuttallia  involucrata  (Nutt.)  Torr.  Ann.  Lye.  N.  Y.  2  :  172  (1825). 
Maiva  involucrata  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i  :   226  (1838). 

Along  the  shore  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay  at  the  Oso.  Stems  prostrate, 
2-3  feet  long,  bearing  a  number  of  beautiful  deep  purple  flowers.  Found 
later  along  Nueces  Bay,  and  in  San  Patricio  county,  growing  in  sandy 
ground  near  ant  hills,  altitude  35  feet. 

March  21  (1468)  ;  type  locality,  "Valley  of  the  Loup  Fork." 

MALVASTRUM  A.  Gray,  Mem.  Am.  Acad.  (II.)  4:   21  (1848). 

[MALVEOPSIS  Presl.  Bot.  Bern.  19  (1844)?] 
Malvastrum  Americanum  (L.)  Torr.  Mex.   Bound.  Surv.  2:  38 


Malva  Americana  L.  Sp.  PI.  687  (1753). 

Malvastrum  tricuspidatum  A.  Gray,  PI.  Wright.  I  :    1  6  (1852). 
In  rich  ground  at  the  Southern  Pacific  bridge,  San  Antonio,  altitude 
600  feet.     Only  a  few  plants  were  seen. 

June  9  (1830)  ;  type  locality,  "in  America." 

SIDAL.  Sp.  PL  683  (1753). 
Sida  angustifolia  Lam.  Encycl.  i:  4  (1783). 

Sida  spinosa  var.  angustifolia  Griseb.  Fl.  Brit.  W.  Ind.  74  (1859). 
In  dry  ground  at  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  40  feet.    This  plant  seemed 
scarce,  as  only  a  few  were  seen.     Flowers  copper-yellow,  open  during 
the  forenoon.     Stems  ascending. 

May  30  (1801;;  type  locality,  "Jamaica." 

Sida  ciliaris  fasciculata  (T.  &  G.)  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  22: 
294  (1887). 

Sida  fasciculata  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i  :   231  (1838). 
In  dry  sandy  ground  near  Rockport,  San  Patricio  county,  altitude  35 
feet,  and   at  the  Oso.     Flowers   open   early  in    the  forenoon,    closing 
about  eleven  o'clock,  dark  lilac. 

April  14  (1567);  type  locality,  "Texas." 
Sida  diffusa  H.  B.  K.  Nov.  Gen.  5  :   257  (1821). 

Sida  filiformis  Moric.  PL  Nouv.  38,  /.  25  (1833-42),  not  Jacq. 
Sida  filicaulis  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i  :    232  (1838). 
A  slender  spreading  procumbent  plant,  bearing  small  yellow  flowers, 


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which  are  open  only  during  the  middle  of  the  day.     At  Corpus  Christi, 
in  open  ground  near  the  beach,  altitude  about  10  feet. 

May  30  (1795),  type  locality;    "prope  Zelaya  Mexicanorum." 

Sida  Helleri  Rose,  n.  sp. 

A  low  shrubby  plant  3  cm.  or  less  high,  forming  clumps  6  cm.  in  diame- 
ter;  branches  woody  and  procumbent,  often  .covered  with  sand,  and 
with  erect,  herbaceous,  flowering  shoots ;  leaves  small,  a  little 
broader  than  long,  8  to  1 2  mm.  long,  rounded  at  apex,  truncate  or 
rounded  at  base,  3  to  5 -nerved,  coarsely  crenate,  more  or  less 
abundantly  stellate-pubescent ;  petioles  6  to  1 2  mm.  long ;  stipules 
persistent,  foliaceous,  linear,  obtuse,  4  mm.  long ;  flowers  small, 
subsessile,  solitary  in  the  axis  of  the  leaves;  calyx  campanulate,  5- 
lobed ;  sepals  ovate,  obtuse,  3  mm.  long,  in  fruit  6  mm.  long ; 
corolla  pale  copper-colored,  larger  than  the  calyx ;  petals  broad, 
somewhat  oblique,  glabrous ;  stamens  united  into  a  slender  tube ; 
styles  5,  slender,  with  capitate  stigmas;  capsule  deeply  5-lobed; 
carpels  obtuse  at  tip,  somewhat  inflated,  dehiscing  at  apex,  one- 
seeded.  Very  common ;  flowers  open  about  4  p.  M.  Collected 
along  the  sandy  shore  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay  at  the  Oso,  by  A.  A. 
Heller,  April  9,  1894  (1533). 

Very  much  like  S.  cuneifolia  Gray   (PI.  Wright.   7  :    18),   but  with 
very  different  shaped  leaves,  much  longer  fruiting,  calyx  with  obtuse  in- 
stead of  acute  lobes,  larger,  more  inflated  and  different  shaped  capsules. 
The  following  note  is  from  a  letter  of  Mr.  E.  G.  Baker,  the  well- 
known  authority  on  Malvaceae : 

11 1  have  taken  an  opportunity  of  comparing  your  Sida,  and  I  have 
very  little  to  add  from  what  you  have  already  told  me.  It  is  a  very 
interesting  little  plant,  closely  allied  to  S.  cuneifolia  A.  Gray,  but  per- 
fectly distinct.  The  shape,  size  and  base  of  the  leaves  are  different,  and 
the  calyx  seems  a  good  deal  larger  in  your  plant  than  in  S.  cuneifolia. 
It  has  the  same  ovate,  membranous,  slightly  inflated  carpels,  so  different 
from  the  Eu  Sideae,  and  I  suppose  you  will  place  it  in  the  Section  Pseudo- 
Malvastrum.  I  see  there  is  generally  one  rather  large  leafy  bract  at  the 
point  of  junction  of  the  pedicel  with  the  main  stem." 

J.  N.  ROSE. 
Sida  physocalyx  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  6:   163  (1850). 

In  rich,  open  ground  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1650  feet,  about  75  miles 
south  of  the  type  locality.  Stems  numerous,  and  about  2  feet  long  in 
older  plants,  from  a  stout  root.  Flowers  small,  dull  yellow,  usually 
opening  about  eleven  o'clock  a.  m.,  and  remaining  open  an  hour  or  less. 


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On  a  bright,  warm  day,  the  time  of  opening  may  be  an  hour  or  more 
earlier. 

June  15  (1864);  type  locality,  "on  the  Liano." 

SPHAERALCEA  St.  Hil.  PI.  Us.  Bras.  /.  52  (1825). 
Sphaeralcea  Lindheimeri  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  6:   162 

(1850).* 

The  first  specimen  observed  was  growing  in  sand  on  the  beach,  near 
the  water's  edge,  at  the  Oso.  Later  in  the  day  a  few  more  plants  were 
picked  up  in  similar  situations  at  Flower  Bluff. 

April  9  (1540). 

MALVAVISCUS  Dill.;  Adans.  Fam.  PL  2:  399  (1763). 
Malvaviscus  Drummondii  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i:  230  (1838). 

Pavonia  Drummondii T '.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i:  682  (1840). 
At  San  Antonio,  along  the  river  banks.     This  plant,  at  least  at  San 
Antonio,  is  not  a  shrub,  as  called  for  in  the  Manual  of  Western  Texas. 
It  is  herbaceous,  stout,  about  five  feet  high. 
June  9  (1833);  tvPe  locality,  Texas. 

CIENFUGOSIA  Cav.  Diss.  174,  /.  72,  f.  2  (1787). 
Cienfugosia  sulphurea  (St.  Hil.)  Garcke  Bonpl.  8:   148  (1860). 

Fugosia  Drummondii  A.  Gray,  PL  Wright,  i:   23  (1852). 
In  rich,  black  land  on  the  edge  of  a  water  hole  near  the  Arroyo,  Cor- 
pus Christi,  altitude  40  feet.     Very  few  plants  were  seen,  and  only  one 
in  flower,  but  the  others  in  good  fruit.     Flower  almost  two  inches  in 
diameter,  greenish-yellow.     Apparently  a  very  rare  plant. 

May  30  (1808);  type  locality,  "Gonzales,  Texas,"  for  our  plant. 

VIOLACEAE. 

CALCEOLARIA  Loefl.  Iter,  183-185  (1758). 

[IONIDIUM  Vent.  Jard.  Malm.  /.  27  (1803).] 
Calceolaria  verticillata  (Ort.)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  41  (1891). 

*  Type  locality;  "Victoria,  on  the  lower  Guadalupe."  I  do  not  know  that  this  species 
has  been  collected  since  it  was  first  described  in  1850,  until  obtained  by  Mr.  Heller. 
The  type  was  collected  by  Lindheimer  in  1845,  but  ^  had  been  previously  obtained 
by  Berlandier  as  early  as  1834.  The  species  had  not  been  previously  represented  in 
the  National  Herbarium,  and  is  probably  the  same  with  many  of  the  herbariums. 
The  type,  which  I  have  seen,  is  deposited  in  the  Gray  Herbarium  along  with  2  sheets 
from  the  Berlandier  Herbarium.  Dr.  J.  Gregg's  No.  523  collected  in  1848-9  seems 
to  be  a  different  species.  Mr.  Heller's  plants  were  collected  near  Corpus  Christi  in 
April,  1894,  and  are  in  fine  condition.  J.  N.  ROSE. 


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Viola  vertidllata  Ort.  Dec.  PL  4:  50  (1797). 
lonidium poly galaefo Hum  Vent.  Jard.  Malam.  27,  /.  27  (1803). 
lonidium  linear e  Torr.  Ann.  Lye.  N.  Y.  2:   1 68  (1827). 
Plentiful  about  Corpus  Christi  from  sea  level  to  40  feet.     Usually  pro- 
cumbent and  spreading. 
March  9  (1414). 

LOASACEAE. 

MENTZELIA  L.  Sp.  PL  516  (1753). 

Mentzelia   multiflora  (Nutt.)  A.   Gray,   Mem.  Am.  Acad.  (II.)  4: 
48  (1849). 

Bartonia  multiflora  Nutt.  Journ.  Acad.  Phila.  (II).  i:   180  (1848). 
On   the   left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  above  Kerrville,  in  low  stony 
ground,  altitude  1600  feet.     Plant  stout,  about  3  feet  high. 

June  21  (1896);  type  locality,  "on  the  Rio  Grande." 
Mentzelia  oligosperma  Nutt. ;  Sims,  Bot.  Mag.  /.  1760  (1815). 

Mentzelia  aurea  Nutt.  Gen.  i :   300  (1818). 

Low,  dry  ground,  along  Corpus  Christi  Bay.  Stems  long,  weak,  twin- 
ing over  bushes.  Flowers  bright  copper-yellow,  open  during  the  middle 
of  the  day. 

May  29  (1791) ;  type  locality,  on  the  Missouri. 

CACTACEAE. 

ECHINOCACTUS  Link  &  Otto,  Verhand.  Preiss.  Gartenb.  Verein, 

3:  420  (1827). 

Echinocactus  setispinus  hamatus  Engelm.  Proc.   Am.  Acad.  3 : 
272  (1856). 

Growing  on  a  sandy  elevation  at  the  Oso,  in  company  with  Sida 
Helleri.  The  yellow  flowers  open  in  the  afternoon. 

April  9  (1531). 

Echinocactus  Texensis  Hoepf.  in  Allg.  Gart.  Zeit.  15  :   297  (1842). 
Echinocactus  Lindheimeri  Engelm. ;     A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat. 

Hist.  5:    246  (1845). 

In  sandy  ground  along  Nueces  Bay.     Plants  about  eight  inches  in 
diameter.     A  handsome  species  with  pink  flowers. 
April  3  (1532);  type  locality,  Texas. 

OPUNTIA  Mill.  Gard.  Diet.  Ed.  7  (1759). 
Opuntia  Engelmanni  Salm-Dyck.  Cact.  Hort.  Dyck  235  (1850). 

Opuntia  Lindheimeri  Engelm. ;   A.   Gray,  Bost.  Journ.  Nat.  Hist. 
6 :    207  (1850). 


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This  most  common  of  all  Opuntias  is  plentiful  throughout  southern 
and  central  Texas.  At  some  places  between  Waco  and  Kenedy,  hun- 
dreds of  plants  can  be  seen  from  the  car  windows.  About  Corpus 
Christi  the  plants  are  usually  large,  and  scattered  in  growth. 

April  14  (1574):   type  locality,  Mexico. 
Opuntia    Rafinesquii   stenochila    Engelm.    Whipple's   Exped.    43 

(1856.) 

In  rich  ground  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1650-1700  feet.  Flowers  open 
widest  during  the  middle  of  the  day ;  pale  yellow,  with  a  reddish  centre. 
Plants  low. 

May  15  (1749)- 

LYTHRACEAE. 

AMMANNIA  L.  Sp.  PL  119  (1753). 
Ammannia  auriculata  Willd.  Hort.  Berol.  7,  /.  7  (1806). 

Ammannia  Wrightii  A.  Gray,  PL  Wright.  2:   55  (1853). 
In  moist,  rich  black  land,  at  Corpus  Christi,  on  the  edge  of  a  water 
hole,  altitude  40  feet.     Plants  small,  3-6  inches  high. 
June  5  (1821). 

Ammannia  coccinea  Rottb.  PL  Hort.  Havan.  Descr.  7  (1773). 
Ammannia  latifolia  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :   480  (1840),  not  L. 

On  the  right  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  growing  in  mud  and 
water. 

June  28  (1925). 

LYTHRUM  L.  Sp.  PL  446  (1753). 
Lythrum  alatam  Pursh,  FL  Am.  Sept.  334  (1814). 

About  Corpus  Christi,  usually  in  moist  ground,  altitude  40  feet,  and 
at  Kerrville  along  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1600  feet,  where  it  was  much 
taller,  more  erect  and  slender.  Distributed  as  L.  lanceolatum  Ell. 

March  27  (1506);  type  locality,  "in  lower  Georgia." 

Lythrum   ovalifolium  Engelm.  ;  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  6  : 
187  (1850). 

Lythrum  alatum  var.   ovalifolium  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist. 

6:    187  (1850). 

On  the  right  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  growing  in  low,  wet 
ground,  altitude  1600  feet. 

June  19  (1885);  type  locality,  "  springs  of  the  Pierdenales  on  rocks 
covered  by  water. ' ' 


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ONAGRACEAE. 

CENOTHERA  L.  Sp.  PL  346  (1753). 
CEnothera  Drummondii  Hook.  Bot.  Mag.  /.  jj6i  (        ). 

Growing  in  sand  on  the  beach  at  Corpus  Christi.  Stems  always  pro- 
cumbent, flowers  about  two  inches  in  diameter,  opening  just  before  dark. 
Called  "  Buttercups." 

March  27  (1512)  ;  type  locality,  Texas. 

XYLOPLEURUM  Spach,  Hibt.  Veg.  4:   378  (1835). 
Xylopleurum  roseum  (Ait.)  Raimann,  in  Engler  &  Prantl.  Nat.  Pfl. 
Fam.  3:   Abt.  7,  214  (1893). 

CEnothera  rosea  Ait.  Hort.  Kew.  2:   3   (1789). 
On  the  banks  of  the  San  Antonio,  growing  in  grass.     Found  only  in 
fruit. 

May  5,  (1703). 

MEGAPTERIUM  Spach,  Hist.  Veg.  4:  363  (1835). 
Megapterium    Missouriensis   (Sims)   Spach,    Hist.    Veg.    4  :    364 


CEnothera  Missouriensis  Sims,  Bot.  Mag.  /.  1592  (1814). 
CEnothera  macrocarpa  Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  734  (1814). 
On   rocky   hillsides   and   lower   summits  about  Kerrville.     A   night 
bloomer,  but  the  large  yellow  flower,  three  inches  in  diameter,  can  still 
be  found  early  the  next  morning. 
April  23  (1629). 

MERIOLIX  Raf.  Am.  Month.  Mag.  4:    192  (1818). 

[CALYLOPHUS  Spach,  Hist.  Veg.  4:  349  (1835).] 
Meriolix  serrulata  (Nutt.)  Walp.  Rep.  2:   79  (1843). 
CEnothera  serrulala  Nutt.  Gen.  1  :    246  (1818). 
Calyhphus  Nuttallii  Spach,  Hist.  Veg.  4:  350  (1835). 
At  Corpus  Christi  in  low  dry  ground  along  the  beach,  but  not  plenti- 
ful. 

April   2  (1517);  type  locality,   "from  the  river  Platte  to  the  moun- 
tains." 
Meriolix  spinulosa  (Nutt). 

CEnothera  spinulosa  Nutt.  ;   T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  i  :   502  (1840). 
Meriolix  serrulata  var.  spinulosa.  Walp.  Rep.  2  :    79  (1843). 
CEnothera  serrulata  var.  pinifolia  Engelm.  ;    A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour. 
Nat.  Hist.  6:    189  (1850). 


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Plentiful  about  Kerrville,  especially  along  the  Guadalupe  and  Town 
Creek,  usually  in  gravelly  or  stony  ground.  Not  only  the  throat  of  the 
calyx  and  the  disk-shaped  stigma  are  dark  black-purple,  but  also  the 
throat  of  the  corolla.  Of  the  hundreds  of  flowers  seen,  hardly  a  half 
dozen  were  without  this  marking.  The  variety  pinifolia  is  merely  a 
very  narrow  leaved  form  of  this  species.  Both  forms  grow  together  and 
there  is  no  other  character  to  distinguish  them. 

April  19  (1600);  type  locality,  Arkansas. 

GAURAL.Sp.  PI.  347(1753)- 

Gaura  Drummondii  (Spach)  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i :  519  (1840). 
Schizocarya  Drummondii Spach,  Monog.  Onogr.  62  (         ). 
Gaura  Roemeriana  Scheele,  Linnaea,   21  :    579  (1848)  ,./&/*  Wat- 
son's Index. 

In  grassy  woodland  at  San  Antonio,  along  the  S.  P.  R.  R.,  altitude 
600  feet.  Rather  plentiful. 

April  17  (1590) ;  type  locality,  Texas. 
Gaura  parviflora  Dougl. ;  Hook.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i  :   208  (1833). 

Along  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet, 
but  not  plentiful. 

May   19   (1768);  type  locality,   "sandy  banks  of  the  Wallawallah 
river." 
Gaura  sinuata  Nutt. ;  Ser.  in  DC.  Prodr.  3  :   44  (1828). 

About  Kerrville  in  rich  ground,  altitude  1650-1750  feet.     Plentiful. 

May  3  (1692)  ;  type  locality,  Arkansas  on  the  Red  river. 
Gaura  suffulta  Engelm. ;  A.   Gray,  Bost.   Jour.  Nat.   Hist.   6:   191 

(1850). 

Plentiful  at  Corpus  Christi,  in  dry,  low  ground  at  sea  level.  Flowers 
rather  small,  but  the  fruit  agrees  with  specimens  of  G.  suffulta. 

March  10  (1391)  :   type  locality,  New  Braunfels. 

UMBELL1FERAE. 

DAUCUS  L.  Sp.  PI.  242  (1753). 
Daucus  pusillus  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i:   164  1803). 

Plentiful  in  low  sandy  ground  about,Corpus  Christi,  especially  in  cul- 
tivated fields. 

April  12  (1438);   type  locality,  "in  campestribus  Carolinae." 

BIFORA  Hoffm.  Umb.  Gen.  Ed.  2,  191  (1816). 
Bifora  Americana  (DC.)  Benth.  &  Hook,  f.;  S.  Wats.  Bibl.  Index, 
415  (1878). 


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Atrema  Americana  DC.  Mem.  Omb.  71,  /.  18  (1829^. 
Abundant  on  hilltops  about  Kerrville,  in  rich,  stony  ground. 
May  21  (1656). 

POLYT^NIA  DC.  Mem.  Omb.  53,  /.  13  (1829). 
Polytaenia  Nuttallii  DC.  Mem.  Omb.  54,  /.  13  (1829). 

Along  the  Guadalupe,  and  on  rocky  slopes  and  summits  about  Kerr- 
ville, altitude  1600-1900  feet. 

April-June  (1669). 

CYNOSCIADUM  DC.  Mem.  Omb.  44,  /.  n  (1829). 
Cynosciadum  pinnatum  pumilum  Engelm.  &  Gray,  Bost.  Jour. 
Nat.  Hist.  5:   218  (1845). 

In  moist  open  ground  at  Corpus  Christi.     A  small,  procumbent  plant. 
March  10  (1409);  type  locality,  "  prairies,  Galveston." 

SANICULAL.  Sp.  PI.  235  (1753). 

Sanicula  Canadensis  L.  Sp.  PL  235  (1753). 

In  rich  shaded  ground  along  the  river  at  San  Antonio.     Distributed 
as  S.  Marylandica. 

May  5  (1713)  ;  type  locality,  in  Virginia. 

AMMOSELINUM  T.  &  G.  Pac.  R.  R.  Rept.  2:   165  (1855). 
Ammoselinum  Popei  T.  &  G.  Pac.  R.  R.  Rept.  2:   165  (1855). 

Apium  Popei  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  7:   343  (1868). 
In  grassy,  sandy  ground  along  Corpus  Christi  Bay,  at  sea  level. 
March  21  (1474)  ;  type  locality,   "  Llano  Estacado." 

CHAEROPHYLLUM  L.  Sp.  PL  258  (1753). 
Chaerophyllum  procumbens  dasycarpum  (Nutt.)  Coult.  &  Rose, 
Bot.  Gaz.  12:    160  (1887). 

Chaerophyllum   dasycarpum   Nutt.;    T.  &    G.   Fl.   N.   A.    i  :   638 

(1842). 
Chaerophyllum    Tainturieri  var.  \dasy  car pum\   Hook.;    S.   Wats. 

Bibl.  Index  416  (1878).     . 

In  rich  ground  on  a  bank  along  Nueces  Bay,  where  it  was  plentiful ; 
altitude  15  feet.     Also  at  San  Antonio  in  rich,  shaded  ground  near  the 
S.  P.  bridge.     This  erect,  rather  stout  plant,  is  very  different  in  habit 
from  our  weak  and  procumbent  C.  procumbens. 
March  12  (1521). 


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APIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  264  (1753). 

Apium  leptophyllum  (DC.)  F.  MuelL;  Benth.  Fl.  Austral.  3:  372 
(1866). 

Sison  Ammi  L.  Sp.  PL  252  (1753).  ? 
Heliosciadum  leptophyllum  DC.  Prodr.  4:   105  (1830). 
In  low,  dry,  grassy  ground  at  Corpus  Christ!  and  the  Oso ;  sea  level 
to  20  feet. 

April  12  (1560)  ;  type  locality,  North  America. 

SPERMOLEPIS  Raf.  Neog.  2  (1825). 
[LEPTOCAULIS  Nutt. ;  DC.  Mem.  Omb.  39,  /.  10  (1829).] 
Spermolepis    divaricatus  (Walt.)  Britton,   Mem.    Torr.  Club,   5 : 
244  (1894). 

Daucus  divaricatus  Walt.  FL  Car.  114  (1788). 
Leptocaulis  divaricatus  DC.  Mem.  Omb.  39,  /.  10  (1829). 
Apium  divaricatum  Wood,  Bot.  &  Flor.  140  (1870). 
Leptocaulis  diffusus  Nutt. ;  DC.  Prodr.  4  :    107  (1830). 
Plentiful  about  Kerrville  on  stony  hilltops  in  rich  ground. 
May  21  (1773) ;  type  locality,  on  the  Red  River. 
Spermolepis  echinatus  (Nutt.). 

Leptocaulis  echinatus  Nutt.;  DC.  Prodr.  4:    107  (1830). 
At  the  Oso  in  grassy,  sandy  ground.     Plentiful  there,  and  also  seen 
about  Corpus  Christi. 

April  12  (1561) ;  type  locality,  on  the  Red  River. 

CARUM  L.  Sp.  PL  263  (1753). 
Carum  Petroselinum  Benth.  &  Hook.  Gen.  PL  i :  890  (1867). 

At  San  Antonio  in  rich  ground  along  the  river  bank.     Escaped  from 
cultivation. 

June  9  (1838). 

PTILIMNIUM  Raf.  Jour.  Phys.  89:   258  (1819). 
[DiscopLEURA  DC.  Mem.  Omb.  38  (1829).] 

Ptihmnium  laciniatum  (Engelm.  &  Gray)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL 
269  (1891). 

Daucosma  laciniatum  Engelm.  &  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  6 : 

211  (1850;. 

On  stony  ridges  around  Kerrville,  especially  just  below  the  summits, 
also  a  few  plants  seen  along  the  river  bank.     Altitude  1600-1900  feet. 
July  4  (1943)  ;  type  locality,  "  near  New  Braunfels." 


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BOWLESIA  Ruiz  &  Pav.  Prod.  PI.  Per.  44,  /.  34  (1794). 
Bowlesia  lobata  Ruiz  and  Pav.  Fl.  Peruv.  3:  28,  t.  251  (1802). 
Growing  in  rich  ground  under  trees  and  bushes  at  Corpus  Christi. 
March  23  (1493);  tvPe  locality,  Peru. 

HYDROCOTYLE  L.  Sp.  PL  234  (1753). 
Hydrocotyle  prolifera  Kellogg,  Proc.  Cal.  Acad.  i:  14  (1873). 

Hydrocotyle  vulgaris  Cham.  &  Schlecht.  Linnaea,  i:  356  (1826), 

not  L. 

Hydrocotyle  interrupta  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  i:  599  (1840),  in  part. 
In  wet  ground  along  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet. 
July  2  (1935)- 

CORNACEAE. 

CORNUS  L.  Sp.  PL  117  (1753). 
Cornus  asperifolia  Michx.  FL  Bor.  Am.  i :   93  (1803). 

Cornus  Drummondii  C.  A.  Meyer,  Mem.  Acad.  St.  Petersb.  (VI.) 

5:   210  (1845). 

On  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  in  rich  moist  ground.     A  spread- 
ing bush,  6-10  feet  high. 

May  7  (1717) ;  type  locality,  South  Carolina. 

PRIMULACEAE. 

SAMOLUS  L.  Sp.  PL  171  (1753). 
Samolus  alyssoides  n.  sp. 

(PLATE    3.) 

Low,  6-8  inches  high ;  purplish,  especially  the  lower  part  of  the  stem 
and  petioles ;  smooth  and  glaucous,  branching  from  the  base,  erect; 
stems  very  leafy  below ;  leaves  crowded,  more  or  less  verticillate, 
spatulate-obovate,  usually  acutish,  tapering  into  a  broad,  margined 
petiole,  clasping  at  base,  thick  and  coriaceous,  the  width  at  the 
widest  part  about  one-third  of  the  length ;  calyx  slightly  longer 
than  the  ovary,  the  triangular-lanceolate,  acute  lobes  equalling  the 
tube ;  flower  small,  white,  like  our  other  members  of  the  genus  ;  a 
cluster  of  glands  at  the  base  of  each  petal  lobe;  stigma  entire, 
slightly  thickened. 
Related  to  S.  ebracteata,  the  shape  of  the  leaves  and  their  manner  of 

growth  being  much  the  same,  but  they  differ  in  being  more  clustered  at 


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the  base  of  the  stems.  It  too  is  destitute  of  sterile  filaments,  but  is 
stouter  in  every  way,  lower,  more  erect,  with  shorter,  slightly  thicker, 
ascending  pedicels,  larger  flowers  and  capsules,  and  entire  stigma.  Un- 
like S.  ebracteata,  it  grows  only  in  dry,  open,  exposed  ground,  and  only 
near  salt  water. 

Collected  along  the  beach  at  the  upper  end  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay, 
where  it  is  scattered.  Extremely  plentiful  on  the  low,  sandy  west  shore 
of  Mustang  Island  at  Rope's  Pass,  growing  in  clumps. 

May  29  (1788). 
Samolus  ebracteatus  H.B.K.  Nov.  Gen.  2:   223,  /.  129  (1817). 

On  wet  limestone  rocks  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville, 
altitude  1600  feet.  Stems  weak  and  fleshy,  long  and  slender,  more  or 
less  leafy,  reclining. 

May  16  (1751);  type  locality,  southern  shores  of  Cuba. 

Samolus  floribundus  H.B.K.  Nov.  Gen.  2:   224  (1817). 

Samolus    Valerandi  var.   Americanus  A.   Gray,  Man.  Ed.    2,  274 

(1856). 

On  the  banks  of  the  Guadalupe  in  mud,  at  the  water's  edge;  not 
abundant. 

June  12  (1843);  tvPe  locality,  in  Peru,  near  Callao  and  Lima. 

SAPOTACEAE. 

BUMELIA  Sw.  Prodr.  49  (1788). 

Bumelia  monticola  Buckley,  Bull.  Torr.  Club,  10  :   91  (1883). 

On  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  on  moist,  rocky  soil.  A  spreading 
bush  five  to  six  feet  high.  The  leaves  are  slightly  pubescent  on  the 
veins,  otherwise  it  is  like  the  type. 

June  2  (1938) ;  type  locality,  "  Mountains  of  El  Paso  county." 

EBENACEAE. 

DIOSPYROS  L.  Sp.  PL  1057  (1753). 
Diospyros  Texana  Scheele,  Linntea,  22:    145  (1849). 

In  low,  dry  ground,  at  Corpus  Christi,  as  a  spreading  gnarled  bush,  2 
feet  high ;  at  the  head  of  Nieces  Bay  a  slender  bush,  8  feet  high ;  near 
Gregory,  San  Patricio  county,  and  at  San  Antonio  and  Kerrville  as  small 
trees,  10-15  ^eet  high-  Altitude,  sea  level  to  1600  feet. 

March  12  (1431);  type  locality,  New  Braunfels,  Texas. 


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OLEACEAE. 

FRAXINUS  L.  Sp.  PI.  1057  (1753). 

Fraxinus  lanceolata  Borck.  Handb.  Forst.  Bot.  i:  826  (1800). 
Fraxinus  viridis  Michx.  f.  Hist.  Arb.  3:   115,  /.  10  (1813). 
Fraxinus  juglandifolia  Willd.  Sp.  PL  4:   1104  (1806),  not  Lam. 
A  small  tree,  growing  on  the  river  bank  at  San  Antonio,   altitude 
600  feet. 

May  5  (1711). 

LOGANIACEAE. 

MENODORA  Humb.  &Bonpl.  PL  JEquin.  2:  98,  /.  no  (1809). 

Menodora  heterophylla  Moric.;  DC.  Prodr.  8:  316  (1844). 
Bolivaria  Grisebachii  Scheele,  Linnaea,  25:   254  (1852). 

In  dry  ground  at  Corpus  Christi,  from  sea  level  to  40  feet,  usually 
growing  in  patches.  Flowers  opening  in  the  morning. 

March  5  (1390);   type  locality,  Mexico. 
Menodora  longiflora  A.  Gray,  Amer.  Jour.  Sci.  (II.)  14:  43  (1852). 

On  the  steep,  stony  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  altitude 
1625  feet.  Usually  growing  in  clumps;  flowers  opening  late  in  the  af- 
ternoon, often  remaining  open  until  the  middle  of  the  next  forenoon. 

June  18  (1880);  type  locality,  "Texas." 

SPIGELIA  L.  Sp.  PL  149  (1753). 
Spigelia  Texana  (T.  &  G.)  A.  DC.  Prodr.  9:   5  (1845). 
Codostylis  Texana  T.  &  G.  FL  N.  A.  2  :    44  (1842). 
Under  a  bush  along  the  road  about  4  miles  northeast  of  Kerrville. 
Seen  also  near  Corpus  Christi. 

May  8  (1719);  type  locality,  "Texas." 

POLYPREMUM  L.  Sp.  PL  in  (1753). 
Polypremum  procumbens  L.  Sp.  PL  in  (1753). 

In  rich,  dry  ground  on  the  edge  of  a  water  hole  at  Corpus  Christi,  alti- 
tude 40  feet. 

May  30  (1805);  type  locality,  "in  Carolina,  Virginia." 

GENTIANACEAE. 

ERYTHRAEA  Neck.  Elem.  2:   10  (1790). 
Erythraea  Beyrichii  T.  &  G. ;  Torr.  in  Marcy's  Rep.   291,  /.  fj 


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Erythraea  tricantha  var.  angustifolia  Griseb.  ;  DC.  Prodr.  9  :   60 


Hanging  from  wet  limestone  rocks  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe 
at  Kerrville.     Radical  leaves  in  rosulate  tufts. 

July  2  (1940);  type  locality,  "on  the  Washita." 
Erythraea  calycosa  nana  A.  Gray,  Syn.  Fl.  2:   113  (1878). 

In  rich,  stony  limestone  soil,  summits  of  hills  about  Kerrville,  altitude 
2000  feet.     Plentiful,  growing  in  patches. 

June  1  8  (1876);  type  locality,  "  \V.  Texas." 

EUSTOMA  Salisb.  Parad.  Lond.  /.  34  (1806). 

Eustoma  exaltata  (L.)  Griseb.  DC.  Prodr.  9:   51  (1845). 
Geniiana  exaltata  L.  Sp.  PI.  Ed.  2,  331  (1762). 
Lisianthus  exaltatus  Lam.  111.  I  :   478  (1791). 
Eustoma  silcnifolium  Salisb.  Parad.  Lond.  /.  34  (1806). 
In  rich,  grassy  ground  on  the  right  bank  of  the  San  Antonio  river,  at 
the  Southern  Pacific  bridge  at  San  Antonio.     The  large  flowers  are  pale 
mauve  in  color.     Scarce. 
June  9  (1834). 

ASCLEPIADACEAE. 

ASCLEPIAS  L.  Sp.  PI.  214  (1753)- 
Asclepias  longicornu  Benth.  PL  Hartw.  24  (1840). 

Near  Corpus  Christi,  especially  along  the  railroad.     A  low  plant,  de- 
cumbent at  base,  from  a  thick  and  fleshy  tuberous  root. 

April  14  (1575);  type  locality,  Mexico. 

Asclepias  Texana  n.  sp. 

(PLATE   4.) 

Perennial,  the  main  root  sending  out  fibrous  rootlets  ;  stem  erect, 
slightly  woody  at  base,  two  to  three  feet  high,  cymosely  branched 
above,  glaucous,  purplish  below,  green  above  and  marked  with  one 
or  two  pubescent  lines,  otherwise  glabrous  ;  leaves  opposite,  oval  or 
ovate,  acute  or  the  lowest  obtusish,  and  broader,  somewhat  oblique 
at  base  ;  petioles  about  one-fifth  the  length  of  the  blade  ;  peduncles 
comparatively  stout,  shorter  than  the  leaves;  umbels  15-20  flow- 
ered, on  pedicels  nearly  half  the  length  of  the  peduncles  ;  flowers 
white  with  prominently  exserted  horns. 


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A  beautiful  species  related  to  the  northern  A.  qitadrifoaa.  At  first  it 
was  thought  that  it  might  be  the  West  Indian  A.  nivea  L.,  but  reference 
to  the  plate  on  which  that  species  was  founded,  to  specimens  in  the  Her- 
barium of  Columbia  College,  and  to  descriptions,  show  that  it  is  not 
that  plant.  A.  perennis  is  perhaps  its  nearest  neighbor  in  some  re- 
spects, but  has  smaller  flowers,  and  leaves  tapering  at  both  ends;  be- 
sides, its  range  is  eastern,  and  it  grows  in  low  ground. 

In  the  Herbarium  of  Columbia  College  is  a  plant  from  either  western 
Texas  or  New  Mexico,  referable  to  this  species,  although  the  flowers  are 
smaller.  Dr.  Gray  named  it  A.  perennis.  In  the  U.  S.  National  Her- 
barium is  a  specimen  of  A.  Texana  collected  by  Lindheimer  near  New 
Braunfels,  but  unnamed  if  I  remember  rightly. 

Collected  on  limestone  hillsides  about  Kerrville,  in  ground  shaded  by 
trees  and  bushes,  and  along  Town  Creek  in  similar  situations,  altitude 
1600-1800  feet. 

June  14  (1859). 

ASCLEPIODORA  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  12:  66  (1876). 

Asclepiodora   decumbens   (Nutt.)  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  12: 
66  (1876). 

Anantherix  decumbens  Nutt.   Trans.  Am.  Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  5  :   202 

(1833-37)- 

Rather  abundant  in  dry,  stony  soil  about  Kerrville. 
April  23  (1631)  ;  type  locality,  "near  the  confluence  of  the  Kiamesha 
and  Red  rivers." 

Asclepiodora    viridis  (Walt.)  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.   12  :  66 

(1876). 

Asclepias  viridis  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  107  (1788). 

Occasional  in  rich  ground  near  Kerrville,  especially  in  wooded  pasture 
land.  Some  forms  had  narrow  leaves  approaching  those  of  A.  decum- 
bens. 

May  8  (1722);  type  locality,  Carolina. 

ACERATES  Ell.  Bot.  S.  C.  &  Ga.  i :  316  (1817;. 
Acerates  viridiflora  (Raf.)  Eaton,  Man.  Ed.  5,  90  (1829). 
Asclepias  viridiflora  Raf.  Med.  Rep.  (II.)  5  :   360  (1808). 
Scarce,  along  the  steep,  stony  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville, 
altitude  1630  feet. 
June  26  (1913). 


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Acerates  angustifolia  (Nutt.)  Dec.  in  DC.  Prodr.  8:   522  (1844). 
Poly  of  us  angustifolius  Nutt.   Trans.   Am.   Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  5:   201 

(1833-37). 
Acerates  auriculata  Engelm.;  Torr.  Mex.  Bound.   Surv.   2:    160 


Asclepias  stenophylla  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  12  :   72  (1876). 
In  dry,  gravelly  or  stony  ground  along  Town  Creek  and  the  Guadalupe 
at  Kerrville,  but  scarce. 
June  16  (1868). 

AMPELANUS  Raf.;  Britton,  Bull.  Torr.  Club,  21  :  314  (1894). 
[ENSLENIA  Nutt.  Gen.  i:   164(1818;,  not  Raf.] 

Ampelanus  ligulatus  (Benth.). 

Enslenia  ligulata  Benth.  PI.  Hartw.  290  (1848). 

In  rich  ground  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  above  Kerrville, 
twining  over  bushes  and  low  trees.  Apparently  not  previously  reported 
within  the  borders  of  the  United  Sta,tes. 

June  21  (1899);  type  locality,  "  ad  Aguas  Calientes." 

METASTELMA  R.  Br.  Mem.  Wern.  Soc.  1:52  (1809). 
Metastelma  barbigerum  Scheele,  Linnaea,  21  :   760  (1848). 
At  the  Oso,  climing  over  bushes,  altitude  10  feet.     Not  plentiful. 
April  12  (1559);  type  locality,  New  Braunfels,  Texas, 

VINCETOXICUM  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  104  (1788). 
[GONOLOBUS  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i  :    119  (1803).] 
Vincetoxicum  biflorum  (Raf.). 

Gonolobus  biflora  Raf.  New  Fl.  4:  58  (1836). 
Chthamalia  biflora  Dec.;  DC.  Prod.  8:   605  (1844). 
In  rich  limestone  ground  along  Bear  Creek,  Kerr  county,  altitude 
1800  feet.     Gonolobus  biflora  is  credited  to  Nuttall,  in  Decaisne,  DC. 
Prod,  as  "Nutt.?  in  DC.  herb.,"  and  by  Gray  is  cited  as  published  in 
Torrey,  Mex.  Bound.  Surv.  2:   165  (1859),  but  Rafinesque  is  totally 
ignored. 

April  30  (1681);  type  locality,  Red  River,  Arkansas  ana  Texas. 
Vincetoxicum  reticulatum  (Engelm.), 

Gonolobus  reticulalus  Engelm.;  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  12  :    75 

(1876). 

Gonolobus  granulatus  Torr.  Mex.  Bound.  Surv.   165  (1859),  not 
Scheele. 


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Rather  plentiful  in  rich,  shaded  ground  about  Kerrville,  climbing  over 
bushes  and  small  trees. 

April  24  (1644);  type  locality,   "mountain  ravine  near  Live  Oak  " 

.CONVOLVULACEAE. 

IPOMOEA  L.  Sp.  PL  1 60  (1753). 
Ipomoea  Lindheimeri  A.  Gray.  Syn.  Fl.  2:   210  (1878). 

Ipomoea  heterophylla  Torr.  Mex.  Bound.  Surv.  2  :    149  (1859),  not 

Ortega. 

On  stony  limestone  ridges  northeast  of  Kerrville,  altitude,  1900  feet. 
Twining  over  bushes.     Corolla  light  blue,  but  turning  pink  when  dry. 
May  21  (1776)  ;  type  locality,  west  Texas. 

CONVOLVULUS  L.  Sp.  PL  153  (1753)- 
Convolvulus  incanus  Vahl.  Symb.  Bot.  3  :   23  (1794). 
In  dry,  open  ground  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1650-1750  feet. 
June  23  (1910);  range,  Arkansas  to  Texas  and  Arizona. 

EVOLVULUS  L.  Sp.  PL  Ed.  2,  391  (1762). 

Evolvulus  Nuttallianus  R.  &  S.  Syst.  6:   198  (1820). 
Evolvulus  pilosus  Nutt.  Gen.  i :   174  (1818),  not  Roxb. 
Evolvulus  argenteus  Pursh,  FL  Am.  Sept.  187  (1814),  not  R.  Br. 

In  dry,  bare  places  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1650-1800  feet.     Corolla 
pale  purple. 

June  23  (1912);  type  locality,  "  confluence  of  the  Rapid  river  and 
the  Missouri." 
Evolvulus  sericeus  Swartz,  Prodr.  FL  Ind.  Occ.  55  (1783-87). 

In  sandy  ground  at  sea  level  about  Corpus  Christi.     Flowers  white. 

March  12  (1441);  type  locality,  Jamaica. 

CRESSA  L.  Sp.  PL  223  (1753). 

(PLATE   5.) 

Cressa  aphylla  n.  sp. 

From  an  apparently  perennial  root;  low,  about  six  inches  high,  slender,  dif- 
fusely branched  from  the  base ;  whole  plant  covered  with  scales  and 
appressed  hairs ;  leafless,  each  branch  subtended  by  an  ovate,  acute 
or  acutish  bract  or  scale,  smaller  ones  scattered  along  the  naked 
branches  and  at  the  base  of  each  flowering  pedicel ;  flowers  on  very 
short  pedicels  ;  calyx  bibracteolate,  the  bracts  appressed,  lanceolate 


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or  ovate  lanceolate,  barely  half  the  length  of  the  calyx ;  calyx-teeth 
oblong-lanceolate,  equalling  the  tube  of  the  corolla ;  corolla  small, 
yellowish  white,  its  lobes  ovate  or  triangular-lanceolate,  pubescent 
externally,  especially  at  the  tip,  with  white  silky  hairs;  stamens  and 
styles  exserted ;  upper  part  of  ovary  pubescent  with  white  silky 
hairs. 

A  handsome  little  plant,  remarkable  for  its  absence  of  proper  leaves. 
Ashy  in  color,  due  to  the  scale-like  covering  and  pubescence  on  the 
stems.  Found  on  the  "Flats"  at  Corpus  Christi,  on  the  east  side  of 
the  San  Antonio  and  Aransas  Pass  Railroad,  a  short  distance  beyond  the 
freight  station.  In  March,  when  the  plants  were  only  an  inch  or  two 
high,  they  were  found  infested  with  a  fungus,  &cidium  Cressae. 
May  31  (1811). 

CUSCUTACEAE. 

CUSCUTA  L.  Sp.  PI.  124  (1753). 
Cuscuta  arvensis  Beyrich;  Hook.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2:    77  (1834),  as 

synonym. 

In  sand  on  the  beach  at  the  Oso,  on  Lycium  Carolinianum,  Lepidium 
Virginicum,  and  other  low  plants,  growing  in  a  thick,  tangled  mass. 

April  12  (1549),  type  locality,   "N.  W.  America." 

POLEMONIACEAE. 

PHLOX  L.  Sp.  PL  151  (1753). 
Phlox  Drummondii  Hook.  Bot.  Mag.  /.  3441  (18     ). 

In  rich  soil  about  Kerrville,  especially  in  damp  places.  A  plant  col- 
lected in  sand  along  Nueces  Bay,  called  P.  Drummondii  villosissima  is 
apparently  only  a  form  of  the  species.  When  growing  directly  in  the 
sand  it  was  weak  procumbent,  with  stems  almost  two  feet  long  and  viscid 
pubescent,  but  plants  growing  only  a  few  feet  distant  in  sod  were  erect, 
only  three  or  four  inches  high  and  much  less  pubescent  (1435). 

April  24  (1641). 

GILIA  R.  &  P.  Prodr.  Fl.  Per.  25,  /.  4  (1794)- 
Gilia  rubra  (L.). 

Poiemonmm  rubrum  L.  Sp.  PL  163  (1753). 

Cantua  coronopifolia  Willd.  Sp.  PL  1 :   879  (1798). 

Gilia  coronopifolia  Pers.  ;  Lindl.  Bot.  Reg.  /.  1691  (         ). 


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On  low,  stony  ground  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  above  Kerr- 
ville,  altitude  1600  feet;  scattered  in  growth.  About  half  way  between 
Kerrville  and  San  Antonio  it  was  seen  growing  in  large  patches. 

June  16  (1869). 
Gilia  rigidula  Benth. ;  D.C.  Prodr.  9  :   312  (1845). 

In  dry,  usually  stony  ground,  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1600-1800 
feet.  As  noted  by  Lindheimer,  the  flower  opens  only  in  the  afternoon 
while  the  sun  is  shining. 

April  24  (1646)  ;  type  locality,  Texas. 


HYDROPHYLLACEAE. 

PHACELIA  Juss.  Gen.  PL   127  (1789). 

Phacelia  congesta  Hook.  Bot.  Mag.  /.  3452  (        ). 
Phacelia  conferta  Don.  Gen.  Syst.  4:   397  (1838). 
In  low,  dry  ground  along  Corpus  Christi  and  Nueces  Bays,  sea  level 
to  20  feet. 

March  12  (1432). 

Phacelia  patiiliflora  (Engelm.  &  Gray)  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad. 
10:  321  (1875). 
Eutoca  patuliflora  Engelm.    &   Gray,   Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  5  : 

253  (1845)- 

In  rich  soil  in  shade  at  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  10-40  feet. 
March  12  (1446);  type  locality,  "  woods  near  San  Felipe." 

MARILAUNIDIUM  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  434  (1891). 
Marilaunidium   hispidum  (A.   Gray)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.   PL  434 
(1891). 

Nama  hispidum  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  5  :   339  (1862). 
Nama  Jamaicansis  Engelm.  &  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  His.  5:    226 

(1845),  not  L. 

In  dry,  open  ground  along  Wolf  Creek,  Kerr  county,  altitude  1800 
feet.     Very  little  of  it  was  observed. 

May  8  (1725)  ;  type  locality,  "  near  the  Brazos." 
Marilaunidium   undulatum  (H.B.K.)   Kunte,  Rev.    Gen.  PL  434 
(1891). 

Nama  undulatum  H.B.K.  Nov.  Gen.  3  :    130  (1818). 
Plentiful  at  Corpus  Christi,  in  low  dry  ground,  especially  within  the 
enclosure  of  the  "  Bluff  City  Park." 

March  20  (1461) ;  type  locality,  near  the  City  of  Mexico. 


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BORAGINACEAE. 

EHRETIA  P.  Br.  Civ.  &  Nat.  Hist.  Jam.  168  (1755)- 
Ehretia  elliptica  DC.  Prodr.  9:  503  (1845). 

About  Corpus  Christi,  altitude  15-40  feet.  Usually  a  bush  or  small 
tree,  but  occasionally  a  tree  30  feet  high  and  over  a  foot  in  diameter. 
Often  planted  at  Corpus  Christi. 

March  26  (1502);   type  locality,  "Mexico,"  collected  by  Berlandier. 

HELIOTROPIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  130  (1753). 
Heliotropium  Curassavicum  L.  Sp.  PL  130  (1753). 

Very  plentiful  in  the  "  Flats"  at  Corpus  Christi,  at  sea  level,  growing 
ing  in  dense  tufts,  with  stems  1-3  feet  long. 

April  2  (1516);  type  locality,  "in  Americae  calidioris  maritimis." 
Heliotropium   tenellum    (Nutt.)   Torr.;   Marcy's   Rep.    Expl.  Red 
river,  304,  /.  14  (1853). 

Lithospermum  tenellum  Nutt.  Trans.  Am.  Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  5:   189 

(1837.) 

On  summits  of  ridges  about  Kerrville,  altitude  2000  feet ;  abundant. 
June  18  (1875);  tvPe  locality,  prairies  of  the  Red  river. 

LAPPULA  Moench,  Meth.  416  (1794). 

[EcHiNOSPERMUM  Sw. ;  Lehm.  Asperit.  113(1818).] 

Lappula  Texana  (Scheele)  Britton,  Mem.  Torr.  Club,  5  :   273  (1894). 

Cynoglossum  pilosum  Nutt.  Gen.  i:   114  (1818),  not  R.  &  P. 

Echinospermum  Texanum  Scheele,  Linnaea,  25  :   260(1852). 

Echinospermum  Rodoivskii  var.   cupitlatum  A.   Gray,  in  Brew.  - 

Wats.  Bot   Cal.  i:   530  (1876). 

Lappula pilos a  A.  S.  Hitchc.  Spring.  Fl.  Manhattan  30  (1894). 
At  San  Antonio  along  the  tracks  of  the  S.  P.  R.  R.,  altitude  600  feet. 
April  17  (1585);  from  the  type  locality. 

ONOSMODIUM  Michx.  FL  Bor.  Am.  i :   132  (1803). 

Onosmodium  Bejariense  DC.  Prodr.  10:   70  (1846). 

In  rich,  shaded  ground  on  a  hillside  along  Bear  Creek,  and  in  a 
similar  situation  four  miles  north  of  Kerrville,  altitude  1800  feet,  were 
collected  a  few  plants  referred  to  this  species.  It  may  be  a  distinct 
species,  but  until  more  material  comes  to  hand  it  cannot  well  be  sepa- 
rated. 

April  30  (1682);  type  locality,  North  Mexico,  near  Bejar. 


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Onosmodium  Carolinianum  (Lam.)  A.  DC.  Prodr.  10  :   70  (1846). 

Lithospermum  Carolinianum  Lam.  Tabl.  Encycl.  i  :    367  (1791). 
At  San  Antonio  on  the  grassy  left  bank  of  the  river,  altitude  600  feet. 
Not  plentiful. 

Mays  (1702). 

VERBENACEAE. 

VERBENA  L.  Sp.  PL  18  (1753). 
Verbena  bipinnatifida  Nutt.  Jour.  Acad.  Phila.  2:   123  (1821). 

Abundant  at  Corpus  Christi  and  vicinity,  principally  in  dry  open 
ground  forming  large  patches. 

March  5  (1385);  type  locality,  "hills  of  Red  river." 
Verbena  canescens  H.B.K.  Nov.  Gen.  2:   274,  /.  136  (1817). 

On  the  summits  of  the  stony  limestone  hills  about  Kerrville,  altitude 
2000  feet.  Not  much  of  it  collected. 

May  14  (i 732) ;  type  locality,  mountains  of  Mexico,  near  Guanaxuato. 
Verbena  officinalis  L.  Sp.  PI.  18  (1753). 

At  Corpus  Christi,  growing  in  dry  open  ground,  sea  level  to  20  feet, 
was  a  plant  referred  to  this  species.  The  flowers  are  usually  twice  as 
large,  as  in  ordinary  V.  officinalis ',  the  plant  stouter  and  more  simple, 
with  a  somewhat  different  leaf. 

March  9  (1419);  type  locality,  "in  Europae  mediterraneae  rude- 
ratis." 

Verbena  quadrangulata  n.  sp. 

(PLATE   6.) 

Herbaceous,  prostrate  and  spreading  from  an  apparently  perennial,  slen- 
der root ;  whole  plant  pilose,  especially  the  stems ;  the  upper  surface 
of  the  leaves  smoother,  with  the  pubescence  appressed ;  cymosely 
branching,  leafy  throughout;  leaves  an  inch  or  less  in  length, 
opposite,  rather  distant,  broadly  ovate,  abruptly  contracted  into  a 
margined  petiole,  three  parted,  the  middle  lobe  largest,  three  to 
five  cleft,  the  lateral  ones  two  to  three  cleft ;  spikes  dense,  bracts 
narrowly  lanceolate,  slender,  pointed,  slightly  more  than  half  the 
length  of  the  calyx;  calyx  prominently  five-ridged,  the  ridges 
green,  ending  in  short,  slender  tips,  which  are  joined  by  a  scarious 
connective ;  flowers  very  small,  white,  or  pinkish  tinged,  tube  ex- 
serted,  the  spreading  lobes  notched ;  fruit  shorter  than  the  calyx, 
four-lobed,  the  lobes  oblong,  blunt,  from  a  broad  base,  angled  and 
pitted,  surmounted  by  a  four-winged  crown,  the  wings  of  which  are 
alternate  with  the  lobes. 


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This  most  peculiar  plant  has  the  habit  and  general  appearance  of  the 
species  of  Verbenas  which  bear  rather  large  and  showy  flowers,  as  V. 
bipinnatifida  and  V.  Aubletia,  but  its  very  small  flower  at  once  throws  it 
out  of  that  group.  Its  most  striking  feature  is  the  shape  of  the  fruit, 
which  is  well  shown  in  the  accompanying  plate.  The  crown  of  this 
curiously-shaped  seed  is  much  like  the  four-angled  fruit  of  certain  species 
of  Gaura  and  is  hollow.  Until  the  exact  limit  of  Verbena  seeds  be 
known,  it  is  provisionally  placed  under  this  genus,  although  it  is  pro- 
bably an  undescribed  genus. 

Collected  at  Corpus  Christi,  where  it  is  plentiful  in  open  ground,  at 
both  the  southern  and  northern  ends  of  the  town.  Altitude  10-35  feet. 

March  5  (1388). 

LIPPIAL.Sp.  PI.  633(1753). 
Lippia  nodiflora  (L.)  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2:   15  (1803). 

Verbena  nodiflora  L.  Sp.  PI.  20  (1753). 

Abundant  about  Corpus  Christi,  in  rich,  dry  ground,  altitude  sea  level 
to  40  feet.  Perennial  from  a  woody  base,  and  large,  thick  root. 
Branches  creeping  extensively  and  rooting  at  the  nodes.  A  broader- 
leaved  form  (1920),  was  collected  at  Kerrville,  growing* on  wet  lime- 
stone rocks.  Distributed  as  L.  lanceolata. 

May  30  (1906);  type  locality,  "in  Virginia." 

LANTANA  L.  Sp.  PL  626  (1753). 
Lantana  Camara  L.  Sp.  PL  627  (1753). 

This  handsome,  shrubby  species  is  rather  common  at  Corpus  Christi 
and  in  the  surrounding  country,  altitude  sea  level  to  40  feet. 

March  5  (1386). 

CALLICARPA  L.  Sp.  PL  in  (1753). 
Callicarpa  Americana  L.  Sp.  PL  in  (1753). 

At  San  Antonio  at  the  Southern  Pacific  bridge,  growing  in  rich 
ground,  but  not  plentiful. 

June  9  (1832);  type  locality,  "in  Virginia,  Carolina." 

LABIATAE. 

HEDEOMA  Pers.  Syn.  2:  131  (1807). 

Hedeoma  acinoides  Scheele,  Linnaea,  22:  592  (1849). 

In  rich,  low  ground  along  streams  about  Kerrville,  usually  growing 
near  trees  or  bushes,  altitude  1600-1625  feet. 

April  19  (1604);  type  locality,  New  Braunfels. 


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Hedeoma  Reverchoni  A.  Gray. 

Hedeoma  Drummondii  var.  Reverchoni  A.   Gray,  Syn.  Fl.  2,  Part 

i,  363  (1878). 

On  the  steep,  stony  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  where  it 
was  plentiful;  altitude  1635  feet. 

April  27  (1883);  type  locality,  Texas. 

SALVIA  L.  Sp.  PL  23  (1753). 
Salvia  azurea  Lam.  Jour.  d'Hist.  Nat.  i  :   409  (         ). 
Salvia  acuminatissima  Venton.  Hort.  Gels.  50,  t.  50  (1800). 
Salvia  angustifolia  Mich.  Flor.  Bon  Am.  i  :    15  (1803). 
This  species  was  found  sparingly  along  the  stony  banks  of  the  Guada- 
lupe and  Town  Creek   about   Kerrville,   altitude    1600    feet.     Perhaps 
plentiful,  but  just  coming  into  bloom. 

June  22  (1905). 
Salvia  ballotaeflora  Benth.  Lab.  Gen.  &  Sp.  270  (1833). 

Plentiful  among  the  chapparral  around  Corpus  Christi.  A  brittle, 
stiff  bush,  with  whitish  bark.  The  pale  blue,  rather  large  flowers  have  a 
tendency  to  turn  brown  in  drying,  but  perhaps  this  would  not  happen  if 
the  weather  were  favorable. 

March  5  (1381);  type  locality,  near  Toliman,  in  Mexico. 
Salvia  farinacea  Benth.  Lab.  Gen.x&  Sp.  274  (1833). 

This  plant  is  very  abundant  at  Kerrville,  about  the  streets  of  the  town 
and  at  medium  elevations,  1650-1750  feet.  Noticed  as  far  east  as  Ken- 
edy,  Games  county. 

April  19  (1617);  type  locality,  "in  Mexico." 
Salvia  lanceolata  Willd.  Enum.  37  (1809). 

Salvia  trichostemoides  Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  i  :    19  (1814). 
Occurring  as  a  weed  in  the  gutters  and  along  the  streets  of  Kerrville, 
but  observed  on  the  hills;  altitude  1650-1800  feet. 
April  25  (1652). 

Salvia  pentstemonoides  Kunth.  Ind.  Sem.  Berol.  13  (1848). 

On  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  on  a  moist  limestone 
ledge,  where  there  was  a  group  of  perhaps  fifty  plants;  altitude,  1625 
feet.  Apparently  a  rare  species.  The  deep,  dull  rose-purple  flowers  at 
a  short  distance  look  like  those  of  some  species  of  Pentstemon. 

June  20  (1894)  ;  type  locality,  west  Texas? 

Salvia  Texana  (Scheele)  Torr.  Mex.  Bound.  Surv.  2:    132  (1859). 

Salviastrum  Texanum  Scheele,  Linnaea,  22:   584  (1849). 
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at  medium  elevations  around  Kerrville.  It  usually  grows  in  thick  clumps 
from  a  stout  root,  the  pale,  blue- purple  flowers  making  masses  of  color 
which  are  noticeable  at  quite  a  distance. 

April  19  (1635);  type  locality,  near  Austin. 

MONARDA  L.  Sp.  PL  22  (1753). 
Monarda  citriodora  Cerv.;  Lag.  Nov.  Gen.  &  Sp.  2  (1816). 

Monarda  aristata  Xutt.  Trans.  Am.  Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  5:  186  (1833- 

37). 

Another  plant  which  is  abundant  about  Kerrville,  forming  large 
patches,  at  an  altitude  of  1650-1800  feet.  Flowers  dark  rose  color.  It 
is  abundant  as  far  east  as  San  Antonio,  and  noticed  at  intervals  be- 
tween there  and  Kenedy. 

May  1 8  (1761). 
Monarda  pectinata  Nutt.  Jour.  Acad.  Phila.  (II.)  i :    182  (1849). 

What  appears  to  be  this  long-lost  and  rare  species  is  very  plentiful 
about  Corpus  Chribti,  especially  southeast  of  the  town.  My  specimens 
were  collected  in  the  Arroyo.  Great  quantities  of  it  were  noticed  along 
the  railroad  between  Corpus  Christi  and  Kenedy.  Neither  the  herba- 
rium of  Columbia  College  nor  the  U.  S.  National  herbarium  at  Wash- 
ington, contain  specimens  of  M.  pectinata,  but  at  the  Academy  of 
Natural  Sciences,  Philadelphia,  is  a  small  specimen  from  New  Mexico, 
collected  by  Fendler,  No.  602,  which  is  referable  to  it. 

My  specimens  are  rather  tall,  usually  2  feet  and  over  in  height,  espe- 
cially if  growing  in  rich,  shaded  ground,  with  a  hard,  woody  rootstock, 
which  gives  it  the  appearance  of  being  a  perennial.  The  flowers  are 
lemon-yellow,  resinous  dotted,  ciliate  pubescent.  Tne  ciliate  bracts  are 
whitened,  yellowish,  or  faintly  reddish  tinged.  The  following  is  Nut- 
tail's  original  description : 

"Biennial?  slightly  pubescent,  leaves  oblong,  lanceolate,  denticulate, 
shortly  petiolate;  capituli  proliferous,  rather  small,  subtended  by  her- 
baceous bracts,  some  of  them  purplish,  ovate,  acute,  strongly  ciliate,  as 
well  as  the  elongated  setaceous  teeth  of  the  calyx ;  corolla  widely  rin- 
gent,  the  tube  scarcely  exserted  beyond  the  calyx." 

May  (31  (1810);  type  locality,  Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico,  collected  by 
Gambel. 

SCUTELLARIA  L.  Sp.  PL  598  (1753). 

Scutellaria  Drummondii  Benth.  Lab.  Gen.  &  Sp.  441  (1834). 

Growing  in  sand  along  the  beach,  southeast  of  Corpus  Christi,  quite 
near  the  water.  A  small  form  (1503),  collected  March  27.  At  Kerr- 


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ville,  where  it  was  found  sparingly  at  an  altitude  of  1620-1650  feet  it 
was  larger  and  more  vigorous. 

April  19  (1613);  type  locality,  on  the  Brazos. 
Scutellaria  resinosa  Torr.  Ann.  Lye.  N.  Y.  2 :   232  (1827). 

Scutellaria  Wrightii  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  8:   370  (1872). 

This  plant  was  plentiful  about  Kerrville,  in  dry,  stony  ground,  altitude 
1620-1800  feet.  The  deep,  blue-purple  flowers  are  very  handsome. 
This  plant,  as  pointed  out  by  Dr.  Porter  in  the  Bulletin  of  the  Torrey 
Club,  21 :  176  (1894),  has  been  going  under  the  name  of  S.  Wrightii. 

April  19  (1606);  type  locality,  on  the  Canadian. 

PHYSOSTEGIA  Benth.  Lab.  Gen.  &  Sp.  504  (1834). 
Physostegia  Virginiana  (L.)  Benth.  Lab.  Gen.  &  Sp.  504  (1834). 
Dracocephalum  Virginianum  L.  Sp.  PL  594  (1753)- 
Dracocephalum  speciosum  Sweet,  Brit.  Fl.  Gard.  t.  93  (1825). 
This  plant,  called  P.  Virginiana  var  spedosa  in  the  Synoptical  Flora, 
was  found  sparingly  on  the  banks  of  the  Guadulupe  in  moist  ground. 
I  have  now  collected  it  in  Virginia,  North  Carolina  and  Texas,  and  have 
always  considered  it  distinct.     Its   manner  of  growth  is  different  from 
the  northern  P.  Virginiana,  and  the  flowers  are  larger,  more   inflated 
and  more  terminal. 

June  22  (1906);  type  locality,  North  America. 

BRAZORIA  Engelm.  &  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  5  :  255  (1845). 
Brazoria  scutellarioides  Engelm.  &  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  5  : 

257  (i845)- 

Physostegia  truncata  Hook.  Bot.  Mag.  /.  34.94.  (         ). 
Abundant  in  rich  ground  on  the  summits  of  hills  about  Kerrville,  alti- 
tude* 2000  feet.     A  handsome  plant,  resembling  a  Physostegia. 

May  14  (1733);  tyPe  locality,  "  near  Cat  Spring,  west  of  the  Brazos." 

STACHYS  L.  Sp.  PL  580  (1753). 
Stachys  Drummondii  Benth.  Lab.  Gen.  &  Sp.  551  (1834). 

Growing  in  rich  ground,  under  trees  and  bushes,  near  the  upper  end 
of  Nueces  Bay.  Not  observed  at  any  other  place. 

March  12  (1434);  type  locality,  on  the  Brazos. 

TEUCRIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  562  (1753). 
Teucrium  Canadense  L.  Sp.  PL  564  (1753). 
Teucrium  Virginicum  L.  Sp.  PL  564(1753). 


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In  rich,  moist  ground  along  Town  Creek  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600 
feet.  On  some  plants  the  bracts  are  unusually  long. 

June  16  (1873);  tyP6  locality,  "in  Canada." 
Teucrium  Cubense  L.  Mant.  80  (1767). 

Along  the  shores  of  Corpus  Christi  and  Nueces  Bays,  usually  growing 
in  clumps  under  bushes. 

March  12  (1439);  type  locality,  in  Cuba. 
Teucrium  laciniatum  Torr.  Ann.  Lye.  N.  Y.  2:   231  (1828). 

Growing  in  patches  along  the  streets  at  Kerrville,  and  also  on  the 
road  between  Kerrville  and  Fredericksburg,  altitude  1650-1800  feet. 

May  8  (1718);  type  locality,  "on  the  Rocky  Mountains." 

SOLANACEAE. 

LYCIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  191  (1753). 
Lycium  Carolinianum  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  84  (1788). 

On  the  salt  flats  at  Corpus  Christi,  where  it  is  abundant,  but  very 
little  found  in  flower. 

March  6  (1395)  ;  type  locality,  Carolina. 

CHAMAESARACHA  A.  Gray;  Benth.  &  Hook.  Gen.  PL  2:  891 

(1876). 

Chamaesaracha  Coronopus  (Dunal)  A.  Gray,  Syn.  Fl.  2 :    Part  2, 

232  (1878). 

Solatium   Coronopus  Dunal,  in  DC.  Prodr.  13  :   Part  i,  64  (1852). 

Rather  common  in  dry,  open  ground  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1650- 
1700  feet. 

April  24  (1647)  ;  type  locality,  Mexico  between  Laredo  and  Bejar. 

PHYSALIS  L.  Sp.  PL  182  (1753). 
Physalis  mollis  Nutt.  Trans.  Am.  Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  5:   194  (1837). 

This  plant  is  rather  common  at  Corpus  Christi,  usually  growing  in 
rich,  shaded  ground,  from  sea  level  to  40  feet. 

March  17  (1453);  type  locality,  sandy  banks  of  the  Arkansas. 
Physalis* 

On  the  bluff  southeast  of  Corpus  Christi,  in  open  ground  once  broken 
for  a  street,  was  a  patch  of  plants  with  large,  pale  yellow  flowers,  rarely 
with  a  darker  center.  The  plants  were  prostrate  from  a  large  and  thick, 
fleshy  root.  The  leaves  are  dull  green,  rather  thick. 

March  27  (1507). 
Physalis* 

*  These  two  species  are  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  P.  A.  Rydberg,  for  determination. 


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A^few  specimens  of  a  tall,  but  rather  weak  plant,  were  collected  along 
Town  Creek,  at  Kerrville,  in  rich,  shaded  ground.  The  flower  is  small, 
greenish-yellow,  the  inflated  calyx  large,  and  rather  slender  pointed. 

May  17  (1756). 

SOLANUM  L.  Sp.  PL  184  (1753). 
Solarium  elaeagnifolium  Cav.  Ic.  3:   22,' /.  243. (1794). 

A  very  common  plant  of  the  coast  region,  and  apparently  everywhere 
throughout  southern  Texas.  Collected  at  Corpus  Christi,  sea  level  to  40 
feet. 

March  27  (1511). 

Solanum  rostratum  Dunal,  Sol.  234,  '/.  24  (1813). 

Solatium  heterandrum  Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  156,  /.  7  (1814). 

Common  in  the  streets  of  Kerrville,  and  also  on  the  hills  in  rich  ground, 
altitude  1650-1800  feet. 

May  17  (1755);  described  from  cultivated  specimens  by  Dunal. 
Solanum  Torreyi  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  6:   44  (1862). 

At  San  Antonio  this  species  wa*s  plentiful  in  rich  ground  along  the 
river  bank. 

May  3  (1709);  type  locality,  "upper  Arkansas  to  lower  Texas." 
Solanum  triquetrum  Cav.  Ic.  3:   30,  /.  259  (1794). 

At  Corpus  Christi  from  sea  level 'to  40  feet,  usually  woody  at  base  ; 
sometimes  long  and  vine-like. 

March  6  (1399);  type  locality,  Mexico. 

CESTRUM  L.  Sp.  PI.  191  (1753). 
Cestrum  Parqui  L'Her. 

A  single  clump,  or  rather  hedge,  of  this  species  was  found  at  San  An- 
tonio, along  the  roadside.  The  bushes  were  tall  and  slender,  growing 
very  closely  together. 

May  5  (1797). 

NICOTIANA  L.  Sp.  PI.  180  (1753). 
Nicotiana  repanda  Willd.;   Lehm.  Hist.  Gen.  Nicot.  40,  t.  3  (1818). 

A  common  plant  at  Corpus  Christi  from  sea  level  to  40  feet.  The 
flowers  expand  in  the  evening  just  "before  dark,  closing  early  the  next 
morning. 

March  6  (1498);  type  locality,  "in  Cuba." 


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PETUNIA  Juss.  Ann.  Mus.  Paris,  2:  215,  /.  47  (1803). 
Petunia  parviflora  Juss.  Ann.  Mus.  Paris,  2:  216,  /.  ^7  (1803). 

Nicotiana  parviflora  Lehm.  Hist.  Gen.  Nicot.  48  (1818). 
Found  growing  in  depressions  at  Corpus  Christi,  from  sea  level  to  40 
feet.     Very  abundant  near  the  upper  part  of  the  Arroyo  in  a  water  hole. 
March  9  (1412). 

SCROPHULARIACEAE. 

VERBASCUM  L.  Sp.  PI.  177  (1753). 
Verbascum  Thapsus  L.  Sp.  PI.  177  (1753). 

A  few  plants  were  found  on  the  right  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  about 
a  mile  below  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet.  The  second  station  recorded 
for  the  species  in  Texas. 

June  22  (1907);  type  locality,  Europe. 

LIN  ARIA  Juss.  Gen.  PI.  120  (1789). 
Linaria  Canadensis  (L.)  Dumont,  Bot.  Cult.  2:  96  (1802). 

Antirrhinum  Canadense'L.  Sp.  PI.  618  (1753). 
Occurring  occasionally  in  cultivated  land  near  Corpus  Christi. 
March  12  (1445);  type  locality,  "  in  Virginia,  Canada." 

ANTIRRHINUM  L.  Sp.  PL  612  (1753). 
Antirrhinum  antirrhiniflora  (Willd.). 

Maurandia  antirrhiniflora  Willd.  Enum.  Berol.  /.  8j  (1816). 
Usteria  antirrhiniflora   Poir.    in  Lam.    Encycl.    Suppl.    5 :     405 

(1817). 
^      Antirrhinum  maurandioides    A.    Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.    7:   376 

(1868). 

Ipomoea  Neatly i  Coulter,  Cont.  U.  S.  Nat.  Herb.  No.  2,  46  (1890). 
First  noticed  in  cultivation  at  Corpus  Christi,  and  afterwards  found 
twining  over  bushes  along  the  upper  end  of  the  bay.     The  handsome 
purple  flowers  do  not  in  the  least  resemble  those  of  an  Ipomoea,  but 
plainly  belong  to  a  Scrophulariaceous  plant.     The  capsule,  though,  bears 
a  superficial  resemblance  to  that  of  an  Ipomoea. 
May  29  (1790):   type  locality,  Mexico. 

PENTSTEMON  Soland.  in  Ait.  Hort.  Kew.  3:   511  (1789). 
Pentstemon  Cobaea   Nutt.    Trans.    Am.    Phil.    Soc.    (II.)  5  :     182 
(1834).? 


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The  plant  doubtfully  referred  to  this  species  is  plentiful  about  Kerrville, 
at  an  altitude  of  1600-1800  feet.  It  varies  in  height  from  one  to  two 
feet,  has  large  and  rather  broad  flowers,  ranging  in  color  from  white 
tinged  with  blue  to  almost  rose  color.  Its  leaves  are  inclined  to  be  nar- 
rower, and  the  flower  usually  not  more  than  half  the  size  of  the  P.  Co- 
baea  found  farther  north.  There  are  a  number  of  specimens  from  Texas 
in  the  Herbarium  of  Columbia  College  identical  with  my  plants. 

April  19  (1610);  -type  locality,  Arkansas,  on  the -Red  river. 

Pentstemon  Guadalupensis  n.  sp. 

(PLATE  7.) 

Low,  8-15  inches  high,  branching  from  the  perennial  rootstock,  which 
sends  down  numerous,  thick,  fibrous  roots  ;  glabrous  below,  the  in- 
florescence glandular  pubescent  and  viscid ;  root  leaves  linear  or 
spatulate  linear,  sessile,  clustered,  2-4  inches  long,  acute  or  acutish; 
stem  leaves  from  linear  to  lanceolate,  sessile,  becoming  broader  and 
shorter  as  they  ascend,  the  upper  with  broad,  almost  cordate  base, 
1-3  inches  long,  acute,  smooth  on  both  sides,  entire,  or  some  of 
the  upper  ones  sparingly  denticulate,  prominently  one-nerved  ; 
calyx-teeth  about  the  length  of  the  corolla  tube,  lanceolate  or  ovate- 
lanceolate,  glandular  puberulent,  especially  on  the  margins  ;  corolla 
white  or  sometimes  faintly  tinged  with  purple,  short,  less  than  an 
inch  in  length,  broad  in  proportion,  the  spreading  lobes  almost 
equal ;  sterile  filament  broadened  above,  the  upper  half  bearded  on 
one  side  with  yellow  hairs. 

This  species  belongs  in  the  Genuini  division,  near  P.  tubiflorus  and  P. 
albidus.  It  was  distributed  under  the  latter  name,  as  there  are  speci- 
mens in  the  National  Herbarium  identical  with  my  plants,  which  are 
called  P.  albidus.  It  is  very  plentiful  in  dry,  stony  ground  along  the 
Guadalupe  and  Town  Creek,  altitude  1600-1650  feet,  and  often  growing 
in  company  with  P.  Cobaea?  Sometimes  large  patches  of  ground  are 
white  \\ith  it.  Usually  several  plants  grow  together  in  a  clump. 
April  19  (1609). 

Pentstemon  triflorus  n.  sp. 

4 

(PLATE    8.) 

Herbaceous,  erect,  usually  2-3  feet  high,  simple,  very  glabrous  up  to  the 
inflorescence;  root  leaves  spatulate,  on  margined  petioles  about 
equal  in  length  to  the  blade,  entire  or  minutely  denticulate,  obtuse 
or  acutish ;  stem  leaves  entire  or  dentate,  the  dentations  sometimes 


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present  only  on  the  lower  part,  sometimes  near  the  upper  end,  and 
occasionally  most  marked  in  the  middle;    the  first  two  or  three 
pairs  oblong,  on  rather  short,  margined  petioles,  the  others  sessile, 
becoming  shorter  and  broader  as  they  ascend  the  stem,  the  upper 
pair  especially,  which  are  usually  ovate  lanceolate  and  clasping ;   in- 
florescence glandular  puberulent  and  viscid ;  peduncles  slender,  less 
than  an  inch  in  length,  usually  three  flowered  ;  pedicels  shorter  than 
the  calyx  as  a  rule ;  calyx  equalling  or  slightly  exceeding  the  slen- 
der tube,  the  slender,  oblong  or  lanceolate  lobes  glandular  ciliate  ; 
flowers    bright    rose-purple,  paler   inside  and    marked   with   dark 
stripes,  an    inch  or  more  in  length,  gradually  dilated,    the   lobes 
spreading  ;  sterile  filament  smooth,  slightly  dilated  at  the  tip. 
Some  leaf  forms  of  this  striking  plant  are  much  like  those  of  the  plant 
referred  to  P.  Cobaea,  but  are  thinner,  dark  green  and  shining;  be- ides, 
the  flowers  are  more  slender  and  longer.       The  color  of  the  flowers  is 
much  like  that  of  the  beautiful  P.  Smallii  of  the  Carolina  mountains. 
It  was  found  only  along  the  summit  of  one  hill  northeast  of  Kerrville, 
altitude  2000  feet,  an  elevation  not  reaches  by  the  two  other  species. 
April  26  (1654). 

CONOBEA  Aubl.  PI.  Guian.  2  :  639,  /.  258  (1775). 
Conobea  multifida  (Michx.)  Benth.  in  DC.  Prodr.  10:  391  (1846). 

Capraria  multifida  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2 :   22,  /.  J5  (1803). 
In  moist,  sandy  ground,  right  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville,  alti- 
tude 1600  feet;  plentiful. 

July  2  (1926) ;  type  locality,  Tennessee  and  Illinois. 

MONNIERA   P.  Br.  Civ.  &  Nat.  Hist.  Jam.  269,  /.  28,  f.  j  (1755). 
Monniera- Monniera  (L.)  Britton,  Mem.  Torr.  Club,  5:   292  (1894). 
Gratiola  Monniera  L.  Cent.  PI.  2 :   (1756). 
Limosella  calycina  Forsk.  Fl.  JEg.  Arab.  112  (1775). 
Herpestis  cuneifolia  Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  418  (1814). 
Herpestis  Monniera  H.B.K.  Nov.  Gen.  2:   366  (1817). 
Monniera  calycina  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PI.  462  (1891). 
Along  the  beach  at  Corpus  Christi  in  wet  sand,  growing  in  thick  mats. 
June  5  (1823). 

Monniera  procumbens  (Mill.)  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PI.  463  (1891). 
Erinus  procumbens  Mill.  Diet.  (1768). 
Herpestis  chamaedryoides  Benth. 
Scattered  about  Corpus  Christi  in  rich  ground,  sea  level  to  40  feet ; 


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near  Gregory,  San  Patricio  county,  35    feet,  and  at  Kenedy,   Carnes 
county,  400  feet. 
March-June  (1460). 

VERONICA  L.  Sp.  PL  9  (1753). 
Veronica  peregrina  L.  Sp.  PI.  14  (1753). 

A  few  plants  found  in  a  moist  gutter  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1650  feet. 
May  17  (1758);  type  locality,  Europe. 

CASTILLEJA  Mutis;  L.  f.  Suppl.  47  (1781). 
Castilleja  Lindheimeri  A.  Gray,  Syn.  Fl.  2:  Part  i,  298  (1878). 
Castilleja  piirpurea  A.  Gray,  Am.  Jour.  Sci.  (II.)  34:   338  (1862), 

not  Don  &  Benth. 

A  common  plant  on  the  hillsides  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1650-1900 
feet.     The  flowers  are  somewhat  variable  in  color,  but  usually  scarlet. 
April  23  (1630);  from  type  locality,  but  probably  further  east  or  south. 

LENTIBULARIACEAE. 

UTRICULARIA  L.  Sp.  PL  18  (1753). 
Utricularia  biflora  Lam.  Tabl.  Encycl.  i  :  50  (1791). 

Utricularia  longirostris  LeConte,  Ann.  Lye.  N.  Y.  i  :    76  (  1824). 
In  mud  and  water  on  the  right  bank  of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville, 
altitude  1600  feet. 
July  2  (1941). 

ACANTHACEAE. 

CALOPHANES  Don  in  Sweet,  Brit.  FL  Gard.  (II.)  /.  181  (1833). 
Calophanes  linearis  (T.  &  G.)  A.  Gray,  Syn.  Fl.  2:   Part  i,  324 
(1878). 

Dipter  acanthus  linearis  T.   &  G.   Bost.   Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  5  :    258 


Plentiful  in  grassy  land  along  Town  Creek  at  Kerrville.  First  noticed 
at  the  Oso,  where  only  two  plants  were  found.  The  corolla  is  a  pale 
purplish-blue. 

April  9  (1529)  ;  type  locality,  Texas. 

RUELLIA  L.  Sp.  PL  634  (1753). 
Ruellia  clandestina  L.  Sp.  PL  634  (1753). 
Ruellia  tuberosa  L.  Sp.  PL  636  (1753). 


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At  Corpus  Christi,  ranging  from  sea  level  to  40  feet.  Only  one  or 
two  plants  were  found  in  flower,  all  the  others  being  in  fruit.  The 
flowers  were  blue. 

March  17  (1417);  type  locality,  Barbados. 

SIPHONOGLOSSA  <Ersted. 

Siphonoglossa  dipteracantha  (Nees). 

Adhatoda  dipteracantha  Nees,  in  DC.  Prodr.  n  :   396  (1847). 
Monechma  Piiosella  Nees,  in  DC.  Prodr.  n  :   412  (1847). 
Siphorwglossja  Piiosella  Torr.  Mex.  Bound.  Surv.  2:   134  (1859). 
Usually  under  chapparral,  or   in  other  protected  situations  at  Corpus 
Christi,  altitude  sea  level  to  40  feet. 

March  12  (1425);  type  locality,  Mexico. 

DIANTHERA  L.  Sp.  PL  27  (1753). 

Dianthera  Americana  L.  Sp.  PL  27  (1753). 

Found  growing  in  Town  Creek  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet. 
Rather  plentiful. 

May  15  (1748);   type  locality,  Virginia. 

PLANTAGINACEAE. 

PLANTAGO  L.  Sp.  PL   112(1753). 
Plantago  aristata  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i :   95  (1803). 

Plantago  Patagonica  var.  aristota  A.  Gray,  Man.  Ed.  2,  269  (1856). 
A  slender  form  referred  to  this  species  was  found  growing  in  a  yard  at 
Kerrville,  altitude  1650  feet. 

May  19  (1769);  type  locality,  Illinois. 
Plantago  heterophylla  Nutt.  Trans.  Am.   Phil.  Soc.   (II.)  5  :   177 

(1833-37)- 

Rather  common  on  the  plateau  at  Corpus  Christi,  the  plants  large  and 
well  developed  in  a  moist  place,  small  and  stunted  in  dry  ground. 

March  17  (1456);  type  locality  "on  the  banks  of  the  Mississippi  and 
Arkansas. 
Plantago  Mexicana  Link,  Enum.  Hort.  Berol.  i:   121  (1821). 

A  spreading,  prostrate  form  of  this  species  (1392),  with  rather  narrow 
leavts  was  found  on  the  sloping  banks  of  the  bluff  at  the  southeastern 
end  of  Corpus  Christi,  and  later  an  abundance  of  it  was  seen  on  hill- 
tops about  Kerrville,  altitude  1900-2000  feet.  This  species,  usually  con- 
fused with  P.  Purs  hit  (gnaphalioides'},  is  distinguished  from  that  species 


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by  its  short  and  smoother  heads.     The  plants  from  Kerrville  were  always 

erect. 

April  24  (1649);  type  locality,  Mexico. 
Plantago  Virginica  L.  Sp.  PL  113  (1753). 

A  rather  peculiar  form  of  this  species  was  collected  in  the  shell  de- 
posit at  Corpus  Christi,  and  along  the  railroad  embankments.  The 
plants  are  small,  prostrate,  with  a  very  short  scape ;  leaves  rather  thick, 
with  distant,  sharp  teeth. 

March  8  (1410);  type  locality,  Virginia. 

RUBIACEAE. 

HOUSTONIA  L:  Sp.  PL  105  (1753). 
Houstonia  angustifolia  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i:   85  (1803). 

Oldenlandia  angustifolia  A.  Gray,  PL  Wright.  2:   68  (1853). 
Abundant  at  Kerrville  from  the  lowest  elevations  to  about  1800  feet, 
but  not  found  on  the  upper  slopes  and  summits  of  the  hills. 
April  27  (1661);  type  locality,  "in  submaritimis  Florida." 

Houstonia  salina  n.  sp. 

(PLATE    9.) 

Prostrate,  from  an  apparently  perennial  root ;  stems  usually  about  four 
inches  in  length,  sometimes  six  or  eight  inches,  cymosely  branched, 
more  or  less  winged,  glabrous;  leaves  sessile,  thick,  oblong,  slightly 
narrowed  at  each  end,  acutish,  the  margins  rolled  in  on  the  under 
side,  glabrous;  stipules  more  or  less  fimbriate;  peduncles  usually 
longer  than  the  leaves  just  beneath  them ;  pedicels  short,  two  or 
three  flowered,  calyx- teeth  triangular-ovate  or  ovate-lanceolate,  short; 
flowers  funnel-form,  about  the  size  of  those  of  H.  angustifolia, 
usually  dense,  white  or  pinkish ;  inner  face  of  the  corolla  lobes  pu- 
berulent  or  glandular,  especially  on  the  margins,  the  throat  pubes- 
cent ;  pod  one- fourth  free. 
This  species,  in  some  respects  resembling  H.  angustifolia,  is  yet  very 

different  from  it  in  both  habit  and  habitat,  and  in  several  other  respects. 

Found  only  in  the  shell  deposit  along  the  beach  at  Corpus  Christi, 

growing  in  prostrate  tufts. 
May  31  (1812). 

CEPHALANTHUS  L.  Sp.  PL  95  (1753). 
Cephalanthus  occidentalis  L.  Sp.  PL  95  (1753). 


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In  moist  places  along  Town  Creek  and  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville, 
altitude  1600  feet.     Rather  common.     Sometimes  almost  10  feet  high. 
June  1 6  (1871)  ;  type  locality,  North  America. 

CRUSEA  Cham.  Linnaea,  5  :   165  (1830). 

Crusea  tricocca  (T.  &  G.). 

Diodia  tricocca  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2 :   30  (1841). 

Diodia  tetracocca  Hemsley,  Diag.  PI.  Nov.  i :   32,  /.  40,  f.  10-15 

(     )• 

Crusea  allococca  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  19  :    78  (1884). 

Found  at  Corpus  Christi,  especially  in  moist  ground,  altitude  40  feet, 
and  near  Gregory,  San  Patricio  county,  altitude  35  feet,  in  open,  bare 
places  in  pasture  land.  When  imposing  the  specific  name  of  allococca, 
Dr.  Gray  remarks  :  "  Referring  this  to  Crusea,  I  shall  not  add  unneces- 
sarily to  synonomy  by  imposing  this  spe  ific  name."  The  giving  of 
another  name  to  a  plant  already  characterized  is  always  an  unnecessary 
addition  to  synonomy,  and  much  more  so  when  the  author  knows  that 
he  is  adding  another  name,  simply  because  the  older  one  is  a  poor  one. 

April  14  (1573);  type  locality,  Texas. 

GALIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  105  (1753). 
Galium  spurium  L.  Sp.  PI.  106  (1753). 

Galium  Vaillantii'DC.  Fl.  France,  4:    263  (1805). 
Galium  Aparine  var.   Vaillantii  Koch,  Fl.  Germ.  330  (1837). 
At  San  Antonio,  in  shaded  ground,  along  the  Southern  Pacific  Rail- 
road. 

April  17  (1588);   type  locality,  Europe. 
Galium  Texense  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  19:  80  (1884). 

Common  in  rich  ground  about  Corpus  Christi.     Old  plants,  large  and 
spreading,  prostrate ;  altitude,  sea  level  to  40  feet. 
March  12  (1437);  type  locality,  Texas. 

CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 

VIBURNUM  L.  Sp.  PL  267  ^1753). 

Viburnum  prunifolium  L.  Sp.  PL  268  (1753). 

Occasional  in  rich  ground  in  the  vicinity  of  Kerrville,  altitude  1620- 
1800  feet.  A  bush  6-10  feet  high. 

April  19  (1595);  type  locality,  Virginia  and  Carolina. 


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SYMPHORICARPOS  Juss.  Gen.  211  (1789). 
Symphoricarpos  Symphoricarpos  (L.)  MacM.  Bull.  Torr.  Club, 
19:   15  (1892). 

Lonicera  Symphoricarpos  L.  Sp.  PI.  175  (1753). 
Symphoricarpos  orbiculatus  Moench.  Meth.  503  (1794). 
Symphoricarpos  vulgaris  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  i  :    106  (1803). 
In  a  copse  in  low  ground  near  Waco,  McLennan  county.     Collected 
only  in  fruit,  without  leaves. 

March  2  (1373);  type  locality,  Virginia  and  Carolina. 

LONICERA  L.  Sp.  PI.  173  (1753). 

Lonicera  albiflora  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2 :  6  (1841). 

Lonicera  dumosa  A.  Gray,  PI.  Wright.  2  :   66  (1853). 

As  a  vine,  hanging  from  the  dripping  limestone  bluff  on  the  left  bank 
of  the  Guadalupe  at  Kerrville,  and  at  the  base  of  the  hills,  northwest  of 
the  town,  when  it  was  a  shrub,  growing  in  thickets. 

April  19  (1597);  type  locality,  "prairies  near  Ft.  Towson,  on  the 
Arkansas." 

VALERIANACEAE. 

VALERIANELLA  Poll.  Hist.  PI.  Palat.  i:   29  (1776). 
Valerianella    amarella     (Lindheimer)    Krok.    Monog.     Valer.     in 
Svenska  Vetensk  Acad.  Handl.  5:   No.  i  (1864). 

Fedia  amarella  Lindheimer ;  Engelm.  in  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat. 

Hist.  6:   217  (1850). 

A  few  slender  plants  were  found  in  rich,  low,  shaded  ground  on  the 
right  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville.  On  some  of  the  hilltops  it  is 
extremely  plentiful,  occurring  as  a  low  and  spreading  plant,  the  small 
white  flowers  exhaling  a  pleasant  odor,  which  is  quite  marked  when  one 
approaches  a  patch  of  plants.  The  odor  of  the  dried  plant  is  very  much 
like  that  of  tincture  of  valerian. 

April  19  (1623);  type  locality,  Comanche  Spring,  Texas. 

CUCURBITACEAE. 

CUCURBITA  L.  Sp.  PL  1010  (1753). 
Cucurbita  foetidissima  H.  B.  K.  Nov.  Gen.  2:   123  (1817). 
Cucumis perennis  James,  in  Long's  Exp.  2:    20  (1823). 
Cucurbita  per ennis  A.  Gray,  Bost.  Jour.  Nat.  Hist.  6:  193  (1850). 


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Rather  common  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1650-1800  feet.  Also  no- 
ticed along  the  railroad  east  or"  San  Antonio.  Stems  often  ten  or  fifteen 
feet  long. 

May  8  (1727);  type  locality,  Mexico,  near  Guanaxuato. 

MAXIMOWICZA  Cogn.;  DC.  Monog.  Phan.  3  :    726  (1881). 
Maximowicza  L/indheimeri  (A.  Gray)  Gogn.  ;  DC.  Monog.  Phan. 
3:    727  (1881). 

SuydiumLindheimeriK.Gta.y,  Bost.  Journ.  Nat.  Hist.  6:  194  (1850). 
In  low,  rich  ground  about  Kerrville,  climbing  over  bushes;    ahitude 
1600  feet. 

May  3  (1694);  type  locality,  "thickets,  New  Braunfels  to  the  Liano," 
Texas. 

CAMPANULACEAE. 

LEGOUZIA  Durand,  Fl.  Bourg.  2  :   26  (1782). 
[SPECULARIA  Heist. ;  A.  DC.  Mon.  Camp.  344  (1830).] 
[PENTAGONIA  Sieg. ;  Kuntze,  Rev.  Gen.  PL  381  (1891).] 
Legouzia  biflora  (R.  &  P.)  Britton,  Mem.  Torr.  Club,  5  :  309  (1894). 
Campanula  biflora  R.  &  P.  Fl.  Per.  2  :  55,  /.  200, /.  6  (1799). 
Speciilaria  biflora  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  n  :   82  (1876). 
Collected  in  grassy  ground  on  the  plateau,  six  miles  north  of  Kerrville, 
altitude  1900  feet. 

May  8  (1721. 
Legouzia  Coloradoense  (Buckley). 

Campanula  Coloradoense  Buckley,  Proc.  Phila.  Acad.  400  (1861). 
Speciilaria  Lindheimeri  Vatke ,  Li n n aea ,38:   713(1874). 
On  the  summit  of  a  hill  north  of  Kerrville,  where  it  is  plentiful,  alti- 
tude 2000  feet.     The  pods  on  these  specimens  are  usually  twisted,  which 
is  a  character  contrary  to  that  give  by  Coulter  in  the  Manual  of  Western 
Texas. 

May  14  (1731);  type  locality,  "  upper  Colorado  of  Texas." 

COMPOSITAE. 

VERNONIA  Schreb.  Gen.  PL  2:   541  (1791). 

Vernonia  Drummondii  Shuttlw.  ;  Werner,  Jour.   Cincin.  Soc.  Nat. 
Hist.  16 :    171  (1894). 

Vernonia  alt\ssima  var.  grandiflora  A.  Gray,  Syn.  FL  I :   Part  2, 
90  (1884). 


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Plentiful  in  thickets  along  the  banks  of  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1600 
feet.  Stems  five  to  six  feet  high.  Distributed  as  V.  Baldwinii. 

June  29  (1927). 
Vernonia  fasciculata  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2  :  94  (1803). 

Found  sparingly  along  the  Guadalupe  below  Kerrville,  altitude  1600 
feet.  Low,  some  forms  of  it  approaching  V.  Lindheimeri.  Distributed 
as  V.  Guadalupensisn.  sp. 

June  22  (1909) ;  type  locality,  Illinois. 
Vernonia  Lindheimeri  Engelm.  &  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  i  :  46 

(1846). 

Common  in  dry  stony  ground  along  Town  Creek  and  the  Guadalupe, 
at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600-1650  feet. 

June  22  (1908)  j  type  locality,  New  Braunfels,  Texas. 

EUPATORIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  836  (1753). 
Eupatorium  conyzoides  Vahl.  Symb.  Bot.  3  :  96  (1794). 

A  few  plants  were  found  on  the  edge  of  the  plateau  southeast  of  Cor- 
pus Christi.  Apparently  not  recorded  from  so  far  east  in  Texas,  as  it  is 
given  as  "  along  the  Rio  Grande." 

June  2  (1816). 
Eupatorium  incarnatum  Walt.  Fl.  Car.  200  (1788). 

Two  or  three  stunted  plants  were  found  under  chapparral  bushes  at 
Corpus  Christi,  altitude  20  feet. 

March  6  (1398);  type  locality,  Carolina. 

GRINDELIA  Willd.  Gesell.  Nat.  Fr.  Berlin,  Mag.  i:   260  (1807). 
Grindelia  inuloides  Willd.   Gesell.   Nat.   Fr.   Berlin,  Mag.  i :     260 

(1807). 

Rather  common  on  the  plateau  southeast  of  Corpus  Christi,  altitude 
35  ^et. 

June  2  (1820). 

Grindelia  squarrosa  grandiflora  A.  Gray,  PI.  Wright,  i :  98  (1852). 
Grindelia  grandiflora  Hook.  Bot.  Mag.  /.  4628  (         ). 

Just  coming  into  bloom  on  hillsides  about  Kerrville,  and  rather  plen- 
tiful at  medium  elevations,  1650-1800  feet. 

June  22  (1904). 

CHRYSOPSIS  Nutt.  Gen.  2:   150  (1818). 

Chrysopsis  villosa  canescens  (DC.)  A.  Gray,  Syn.  Fl.  i:  Part  2, 
123  (1884). 
Apia  pappus  ?  {Leucopsis}  canescens  DC.  Prodr.  5:   3  49  (1836). 


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On  the  edge  of  the  bluff  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guadalupe,  at  Kerr- 
ville,  growing  in  clumps;  altitude  1650  feet. 
June  13  (1854);  .type  locality,  Texas. 

ERIOCARPUM  Nutt.  Trans.  Am.  Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  7:   320  (1841). 
Eriocarpum  rubiginosum  phyllocephalum  (DC.). 
Aplopappus  phyllocephalus  DC.  Prodr.  5:   347  (1836). 
Aplopappus  rubiginosus  var.  phyllocephalus  A.  Gray,  Syn.  Fl.    i  : 

Part  2,  130  (1884). 

Found,  sparingly  in  dry  ground  on  the  edge  of  the  "  Flats,"  at  Corpus 
Christi,  and  along  Nueces  Bay. 

March  12  (1440). 

Eriocarpum  spinulosum  (Pursh)  Greene,  Erythea,  2:   108  (1894). 
Amellus  spinulosus  Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  564  (1814). 
Aplopappus  (?)  spinulosus  DC.  Prodr.  5:   347  (1836). 
Two  clumps  of  this  plant  were  found  in  grassy  pasture  land  at  Kerr- 
ville,  altitude  1750  feet. 
June  14  (1858). 

CHONDROPHORA  Raf.  New  Fl.  N.  A.  4  :   79  (1836). 

[BiGELOWiA  DC.  Prodr.  5:   329  (1836),  not  Spreng.] 
Chondrophora  Drummondii  (T.  &  G.). 

Linosyris  Drummondii  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2 :   233  (1842). 
Bigelovia  Drummondii  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  8:   639  (1873). 
On  the  plateau  near  the  Arroyo  at  Corpus  Christi,  and  at  the  Oso, 
near  the  water,  apparently  rather  plentiful,  but  just  coming  into  bloom 
when  I  left.     A  rare  plant  in  herbaria. 

April  12  (1557);  type  locality,  coast  of  Texas. 

APHANOSTEPHUS  DC.  Prodr.  5  :  310  (1836). 
Aphanostephus  humilis  (Benth.)  A.  Gray,  PI.  Wright,  i :  93  (1852). 

Leucopsidium  humile  Benth.  PL  Hartw.  18  (1836). 
In  open,  exposed  ground  at   Corpus  Christi,  in  the  northern  end  of 
the  town  near  the  beach.     Plants  prostrate,  small. 

March  8  (1404). 

Aphanostephus  ramosissimus  DC.  Prodr.  5  :  310  (1836). 
Aphanostephus  Ridddlii'l.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2:    189  (1841). 
Along  the  banks  of  the  Gaudalupe,  in  dry,  stony  ground,  at  Kerr- 
ville,  altitude  1620  feet.     Growing  in  clumps. 

April -24  (1642);  type  locality,  Mexico  and  Texas. 


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ERIGERON  L.  Sp.  PL  863  (1753). 
Erigeron  Canadensis  L.  Sp.  PI.  863  (1753). 

Occasional  about  the  streets  of  Kerrville,  altitude  1650  feet. 

June  30  (1933);  type  locality,  Canada. 
Erigeron  Philadelphicus  L.  Sp.  PL  863  (1753). 

Along  Town  Creek  and  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1600  feet,  in  rich, 
moist,  shaded  ground,  is  found  a  white-flowered  form  with  mostly  en- 
tire leaves.  In  the  Herbarium  of  Columbia  College  there  is  only  one 
specimen  exactly  like  it,  collected  also  in  Texas.  It  may  yet  prove  to  be 
distinct  from  our  larger,  pink-rayed  plant  of  the  north. 

April  28  (1672). 
Erigeron  repens  A.  Gray,  Syn.  Fl.  i  :   Part  2,  217  (1884). 

Two  or  three  plants  picked  up  at  Flower  Bluff,  growing  in  the  scrub 
oak  in  sand. 

April  9  (1538):  type  locality,  coast  of  Texas. 
Erigeron  tenuis  T.  &  G.  FL  N.  A.  2 :   175  (1841). 

This  little  plant  was  found  in  quantity  on  a  grassy  bank  near  the  upper 
end  of  Nueces  Bay.  The  ray  flowers  were  tinged  with  blue. 

March  12  (1436),  range,  from  Arkansas  to  Texas. 

FILAGO  L.  Sp.  PL  927  (1753). 

[EVAX  Gaertn.  Fr.  &  Sem.   2:   393,  /.  165  f.  3  (1791).] 
Filago  multicaulis  (DC.). 

Evax  multicaulis  DC.  Prodr.  5  :   459  (1836). 
Filaginopsis  multicaulis  T.  &  G.  FL  N.  A.  2 :   263  (1842). 
Very  common  in  the  low  ground  bordering  on  the  "  Flats  "  at  Corpus 
Christi ;  also  on  the  railroad  embankment. 
Mirch  14  (1450);  type  locality,  Texas. 

GNAPHALIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  850  (1753). 
Gnaphalium  purpureum  L.  Sp.  PL  854  (1753). 

A  few  plants  were  found  at  Corpus  Christi  and  Flower  Bluff,  in  sand, 
altitude  15-40  feet. 

March  23  (1489);  type  locality,  North  America. 

MELAMPODIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  921  (1753)- 
Melampodium  cinereum  DC.  Prodr.  5:  518  (1836). 

One  of  the  commonest  plants  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1620-1800  feet. 
Growing  in  bunches. 

April  23  (1632);  type  locality,  Msxico. 


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SILPHIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  919  (1753). 
Silphium  integrifolium  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2:  146  (1803). 

One  patch  of  it  on  a  dripping  limestone  ledge,  left  bank  of  the  Guad- 
alupe,  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1620  feet.  Stems  4-6  feet  high. 

June  20  (1895);  type  locality,  Illinois. 
Silphium  laciniatum  L.  Sp.  PL  919  (1753). 

A  few  plants  were  found  on  hillsides  at  middle  elevations  about  Kerr- 
ville, 1700-1850  feet. 

June  30  (1930);  type  locality,  North  America. 

BERLANDIERA  DC.  Prodr.  5:   517  (1836). 
Berlandiera  Texana  DC.  Prodr.  5:  517  (1836). 

Occasionally  found  in  low,  usually  damp  ground,  along  the  Guada- 
lupe  and  Town  Creek,  at  Kerrville. 

June  1 6  (1874) ;  type  locality^  Texas. 

LINDHEIMERA  Engelm.  &  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  1 :  47  (1846). 

Lindheimera  Texana  Engelm.   &  Gray,  Proc.  Am.   Acad.  i :   47 

(1846). 

A  common  plant  about  Kerrville,  growing  along  roadsides  and  in 
fields,  altitude  1700-1900  feet. 

April  26  (1660)  ;   type  locality,  New  Braunfels,  Texas. 

ENGELMANNIA  T.  &  G.  FL  N.  A.  2 :   283  (1841). 
Engelmannia  pinnatifida  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2:   283  (1841). 

First  collected  along  the  upper  end  of  Nueces  Bay  on  a  grassy  bank, 
later  at  San  Antonio.  At  Kerrville  it  is  very  plentiful  in  stony  ground 
at  an  altitude  of  1600-1650  feet. 

March  12  (1522);  range,  Arkansas  to  Texas. 

PARTHENIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  988  (1753). 
Parthenium  Hysterophorus  L.  Sp.  PL  988  (1753). 

Argyrochaeta  bipinnatifida  Cav.  Ic.  4:   54,  /.  j?8  (1797). 
One  of  the  most  common  weeds  at  Corpus  Christi,  San  Antonio,  and 
Kerrville.     Not  observed  at  any  distance  from  either  of  the  places  named. 
March-June  (1418);  type  locality,  Jamaica. 

AMBROSIA  L.  Sp.  PL  987  (1753). 

Ambrosia  artemisiaefolia  L.  Sp.  PL  988  (1753). 

Several  thick  bunches  of  it  found  along  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad 
near  the  bridge,  at  San  Antonio. 

May  3  (1696);   type  locality,  Virginia,  Pennsylvania. 


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RUDBECKIA  L.  Sp.  PL  906  (1753). 
Rudbeckia  amplexicaulis  Vahl.  Act.  Havn.  2:   29,  /.  4  (1783). 

A  few  plants  were  found  in  wet  ground  on  the  edge  of  the  Guadalupe 
at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet.  The  parti-colored  flowers  of  this  and 
the  next  species  are  very  handsome. 

June  13  (1853). 
Rudbeckia  bicolor  Nutt.  Jour.  Acad.  Phila.  7:   81  (1834). 

Collected  first  in  San  Patricio  county  (1571),  and  later  at  Kerrville 
along  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1600  feet,  where  it  was  plentiful,  in  rich, 
low,  shaded  ground. 

May  19  (1764);  type  locality,  Arkansas,  near  the  Red  river. 

LEPACHYS  Raf.  Jour.  Phys.  89:   100  (1819). 
Lepachys  columnaris  (Pursh)  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2 :  315  (1842). 
Rudbeckia  columnaris  Pursh,  Fl.  Am.  Sept.  575  (1814). 

At  Kerrville,  collected  along  the  Guadalupe  and  at  the  base  of  the 
hills,  altitude  1600-1750  feet;  common. 

June  13  (1850);  type  locality,  on  the  Missouri. 
Lepachys  columnaris  pulcherrima  T.   &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2 :  315 

(1842). 

Very  common  in  waste  places  about  San  Antonio,  altitude  600  feet. 
In  the  "  Check  List "  Dr.  Britton  has  included  this  under  the  species, 
but  I  keep  it  separate  here,  inasmuch  as  the  living  plants  of  the  two  are 
quite  different  in  appearance.  At  San  Antonio,  where  thousands  of 
plants  of  this  are  found  growing  in  clumps,  only  one  yellow-flowered 
plant  was  seen.'  At  Corpus  Christi,  where  it  is  rather  common  on  the 
plateau,  no  yellow-flowered  ones  were  seen.  It  seems  to  be  more  gre- 
garious in  habit  and  stouter  than  true  L.  columnaris. 

May  5  (1708). 
Lepachys  peduncularis  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2 :  315  (1842). 

Scattered  here  and  there,  in  low  ground  along  the  beach,  at  the  upper 
end  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay.  Heads  on  a  scape-like  peduncle,  leaves  all 
at  the  base,  thick  and  fleshy.  Ra}s  short,  brown-purple. 

May  29  (1789);  type  locality,  Texas,  in  low  ground. 

BRAUNERIA  Neck.  Elem.  1:17  (1790). 

[ECHINACEA  Moench.  Meth.  591  (1794).] 

Brauneria  pallida  (Nutt.)  Britton,  Mem.  Torr.  Club,  5  :  333  (1894). 
Rudbeckia pallida  Nutt.  Jour.  Acad.  Phila.  7  :    77  (1834). 
Echinacea  angustifolia  DC.  Prodr.  5  :   554  (1836). 


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Plentiful,  but  scattered,   on  hillsides  about  Kerrville,  altitude  1650- 
1850  feet. 

May  14  (1735)  ;   type  locality.  Arkansas. 

TETRAGONOTHECA  L.  Sp.  PL  903  (1753). 
Tetragonotheca  Texana  Engelm.  &  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  i :  48 

(1846). 

A  few  plants  of  this  were  found  on  the  low,  gravelly  right  bank  of  the 
Guadalupe,  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1600  feet. 

June  13  (1848);  type  locality,  junction  of  the  Guadalupe  and  Cibola 

BORRICHIA  Adans.  Fam.  PI.  2:   130  (1763). 
Borrichia  frutescens  (L.)  DC.  Prodr.  5 :  489  (1836). 

Bitphthalmumfrutescens  L.  Sp.  PI.  903  (1753). 
Common  along  the  beach  of  Corpus  Christi  Bay. 
May  29  (1786);  type  locality,  Jamaica  and  Virginia. 

HELIANTHUS  L.  Sp.  PI.  904  (1753). 
Helianthus  annuus  L.  Sp.  PI.  904  (1753). 

About  the  streets  of  Kerrville  and  in  cultivated  fields,  altitude  1650- 
1700  feet. 

June  14  (1862)  ;  type  locality,  North  America. 

ENCELIA  Adans.  Fam.  PL  2  :   128  (1763). 

Encelia  calva  (Engelm.  &  Gray)  A.   Gray,  Prcc.   Am.  Acad.  19  :  8 

(1883). 

Barrattia  calva  Engelm.  &  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  I  :    48  (1846). 

Scattered,    on   hillsides    about    Kerrville,    altitude    1700-1900    feet. 
Flowers  pale  yellow,  rather  large. 

June  14  (1860)  ;  from  the  type  locality,  on  the  upper  Guadalupe. 

ZEXMENIA  Llave  &  Lex.  Nov.  Veg.  Descr.  i :   13  (1824). 
Zexmenia   hispida   (H.B.K.)  A.   Gray,  Proc.  Am.   Acad.    19 :   10 
(1883). 

Wedelia  hispida  H.B.K.  Nov.  Gen.  4 :   215,  /.  371  (1820). 
Sfemmodontia  scaberrima  Cassini,  Diet.  46:   407  (1826). 
Lipochaeta  Texana  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2 :   357  (1842). 
Zexmenia  Texana  A.  Gray,  PL  Wright,  i  :    112  (1852). 
Viguiera  longipes  Coulter,  Cont.  U.  S.  Nat.  Herb.  No.  2,  41  (1890). 


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This  plant  is  common  on  the  plateau  near  Corpus  Christi,  especially 
at  the  Oso,  and  is  found  at  Kerrville  ranging  pretty  well  up  on  the  hill- 
sides. A  handsome  species  with  orange-colored  rays.  Well  figured  in 
Cont.  U.  S.  Nat.  Herb.  2:  220  (1891). 

March  21  (1479);   type  locality,  Tenochtitlensi,  Mexico. 

VERBESINA  L.  Sp.  PL  901  (1753). 

[RiDAN  Adans.  Fam.  PL  2:   130  (1763).] 

[ACTINOMERIS  Nutt.  Gen.  2:    181   (1818).] 

Verbesina  encelioides   (Cav.)   A.   Gray,  Syn.  Fl.  i  :    Part.  2,  288 

(1884). 

Ximenesia  encelioides  Cav.  Icon.  2  :   60,  /.  178  (1793). 

Common  about  Corpus  Christi,  often  becoming  a  weed  in  cultivated 
ground. 

May  29  (1785);  range,  Arizona  to  Texas. 
Verbesina  Texana  Buckley,  Proc.  Acad.  Phila.  458  (1861). 

Not  infrequent  around  Corpus  Christi.  This  plant,  a  very  good 
species,  was  reduced  by  Gray  to  V.  Virginica,  in  the  rather  hasty  con- 
demning of  the  majority  of  Buckley's  Texas  species,  a  great  many  of 
which  have  since  been  reinstated,  and  no  doubt  a  number  more  will  be. 
It  is  readily  separated  from  V.  Virginica  by  its  thick,  repand  leaves, 
which  have  very  broad  petioles,  the  hemispherical  involucre,  and 
broadly  winged  achene.  In  the  herbarium  of  Columbia  College  it  is 
represented  by  specimens  from  Miss  Mary  B.  Croft  (40)  collected  at  San 
Diego,  Texas,  and  by  Pringle's  1916  from  in  a  valley  near  Monterey. 

April  12  (1556). 

SYNEDRELLA  Gaertn.  Fr.  &  Sem.  2:   456,  t.  171  (1791). 
Synedrella  vialis  (Less.)  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  17:  217  (1882). 
Calypto carpus  vialis  Less.  Syn.  221  (1832). 
Oligogyne  Tampicana  DC.  Prodr.  5:   629  (1836). 
A  small  plant,  from  a  woody  base,  found  about  Corpus  Christi.     The 
yellow  ray  flowers  are  very  small. 

March  26  (1500);  type  locality,  Mexico. 

COREOPSIS  L.  Sp.  PL  907  (1753). 

Coreopsis  Nuecensis  n.  n. 
Coreopsis  coronata  Hook.  Bot.  Mag.  /.  3460  (         ),  not  L.  (1753), 

and  not  Walt.  (1788). 
Plentiful  about  Corpus  Christi  in  moist  ground,  usually  growing  in 


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bunches,  the  more  vigorous  plants  a  foot  high  or  more.  It  seems  that 
Hooker  was  aware  that  the  specific  name  coronata  had  been  previously 
used,  yet  he  took  it  up  for  this  plant,  and  has  been  followed  ever  since. 

April  ii  (1548). 

Coreopsis  Drummondii  (Don)  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2  :    354  (1842). 
Calliopsis  Drummondii  Don,   in  Sweet's  Brit.  Fl.  Card.  Ser.  2,  /. 


.  . 

This  elegant  species  is  common  on  hilltops  about  Kerrville,  where  it 

grows  in  company  with  Thelesperma  trifidum. 
May  14  (1730),  type  locality,  Texas. 

THELESPERMA  Less.  Linnaea,  6  :    511  (1831). 
Thelesperma  simplicifolium  A.  Gray,  Kew  Jour.  Bot.  i  :  252  (1849). 
Cosmidium  simplicifolium  A.  Gray,  Mem.  Am.  Acad.  4  :  86  (1849). 
Thelesperma  subsimplicifolinm  A.  Gray  ;  Torr.  Mex.   Bound.  Surv. 

2:   90  (1859). 

Rather  common  in  dry,  stony  ground  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1650-1800 
feet. 

May  10  (1728);  type  locality,  Buena  Vista,  Mexico. 
Thelesperma  trifidum  (Poir.)  Britton,  Trans.  N.  Y.  Acad.  Sci.  9: 
182  (1890). 

Coreopsis  trifida  Poir.  in  Suppl.  Lam.  Encycl.  2:   353  (1811). 
Thelesperma  fi  lifolium  A.  Gray,  Kew  Jour.  Bot.  i  :   252  (1849). 
Plentiful  on  summits  of  hills  in  Kerr  county,  altitude  1900-2000  feet. 
There  is  considerable  resemblance  between  this  plant  and    Coreopsis 
Drummondii  except  in  the  color  of  the  flowers,  yet  they  can  readily  be 
distinguished  when  growing  side  by  side. 

April  28  (1665);  type  locality,  North  America. 

MARSHALLIA  Schreb.  Gen.  PI.  810  (1789). 

Marshallia  caespitosa  Nutt.  ;  DC.  Prodr.  5:  680  (1836). 

In  stony,  dry  ground  along  Town  Creek  and  the  Guadalupe,  altitude 
1600-1650  feet,  this  species  is  abundant.  Flowers  pinkish  or  purplish 
tinged. 

April  19  (1618)  ;  type  locality,  Red  river  in  Arkansas. 

HYMENOPAPPUS  L'Her.  ;  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2:  103  (1803). 
Hymenopappus  artemisiaefolius  DC.  Prodr.  5  :  658  (1836). 

Scattered,  but  plentiful  near  Kerrville,  from  the  lowest  elevations  to 
the  highest,  1600-2000  feet,  but  most  abundant  on  the  hilltops. 

April  23  (1638);  type  locality,  Texas. 


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FLORESTINA  Cass.  Bull.  Soc.  Philom.  175  (1815). 
Florestina  tripteris  DC.  Prodr.  5  :  655  (1836). 

On  the  edge  of  the  "Flats"  at  Corpus  Christi,  at  the  base  of  the 
plateau. 

June  8  (1828)  ;  type  locality,  Laredo,  Texas. 

POLYPTERIS  Nutt.  Gen.  2;  139  (1818). 
Polypteris  callosa  (Nutt.)  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  19:   30  (1883). 

Stevia  callosa  Nutt.  Jour.  Acad.  Phila.  2:    121  (1821). 
An  occasional  plant  was  found  in  the  then  dry  and  gravelly  beds  of 
Town  Creek  and  the  Guadalupe,  altitude  1600  feet.     Probably  plentiful, 
but  just  coming  into  bloom. 

June  27  (1919);  type  locality,  "gravelly  banks  of  the  Arkansas." 
Polypteris  Hookeriana  (T.  &  G.)  A.  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.   19 : 
3i-(iS83) 

Palafoxia  Hookeriana  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2:   368  (1842). 
Growing  in  sand  near  the  shore  at  the  Oso,  and  in  the  shell  deposit 
at  the  upper  end  of  Corpus  Christi.-    Rather  plentiful  at  both  places. 
April  12  (1562);  type  locality,  Texas. 

HYMENATHERUM  Cass.  Bull.  Soc.  Philom.  1817,  12  (1817). 
Hymenatherum  tagetoides  (T.   &  G.)   A.  Gray,  Mem.  Am.  Acad. 

4:  88(1849). 

Dysodia  tagetoides  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2 :   361  (1842). 

Found  only  on  the  upper  slopes  of  the  hills  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1800- 
1900  feet,  growing  in  open,  grassy  pasture  land.  Plants  scattered,  but 
plentiful. 

June  14  (1855);  type  locality,  Texas. 
Hymenatherum  Wrightii  A.  Gray,  Mem.  Am.  Acad.  4:   89  (1849). 

At  Corpus  Christi,  near  the- water  tank  of  the  Texas  and  Mexican  Rail- 
way, this  species  grew  in  dense  patches  in  an  inclosed  piece  of  ground. 
A  few  plants  were  also  found  at  the  Oso,  where  they  were  larger  and 
more  vigorous,  the  situation  being  more  favorable  for  growth. 

March  23  (1494) ;  type  locality,  Texas. 

HELENIUM  L.  Sp.  PL  886  (1753). 
Helenium  elegans  DC.  Prodr.  5  :  667  (1836). 

This  handsome,  though  small -flowered  species,  was  found  at  Kerrville 
in  moist  or  wet  ground,  ranging  from  the  banks  of  Town  Creek  and  the 


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Guadalupe  to  the  streets  of  Kerrville,  where  the  plants  were  large  and 
branched  above. 

May  1 6  (1754);   type  locality,  Bejar,  Mexico. 

AMBLYOLEPIS  DC.  Prodr.  5:   667  (1836). 

Amblyolepis  setigera  DC.  Prodr.  5  :   667  (1836). 

Found  only  near  the  edge  of  the  bluff  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Guada- 
lupe, at  Kerrville,  altitude  1650  feet.  Leaves  thick  and  fleshy,  emitting 
a  rather  pleasant  odor  when  dried. 

May  14  (1746);   type  locality,  Texas. 

GAILLARDIA  Foug.  Mem.  Acad.  Paris,  1786,  5,  /.  /,  2  (1786). 

Gaillardia  pulchella  Foug.  Mem.  Acad.  Paris,  1786,  5  (1786). 

Two  forms  were  collected  at  Corpus  Christi,  in  low,  dry  ground  along 
the  beach.  One  is  ascending,  rather  naked,  at  least  below,  inclined  to 
be  woody,  and  leaflets  usually  entire.  The  other  is  low,  prostrate,  with 
thick,  fleshy  leaves,  and  large  flowers,  with  red-brown  rays  (1424).  At 
San  Antonio,  and  about  Kerrville,  where  it  grows  in  large  patches,  the 
ordinary  form  is  found,  with  the  outer  part  of  the  range  yellow. 

April  19  (1584). 
Gaillardia  suavis  (Engelm.  &  Gray)  Britt.  &  Rusby,  Trans.  N.  Y. 

Acad.  Sci.  7:    n  (1887). 

Agassizia  suavis  Engelm.  &  Gray,  Proc.  Am.  Acad.  i  :   49  (1846). 
Gaillardia  simplex  Scheele,  Linnaea,  22:    160  (1849). 

At  Kerrville,  altitude  1700  feet,  a  few  plants  were  found  with  ray 
flowers,  which  were  small,  copper-colored.  The  leaves  had  a  tendency 
to  be  more  entire  than  the  rayless  form,  and  were  somewhat  shorter  and 
broader.  The  ordinary  form  was  quite  common. 

April  30  (1680);  type  locality,  New  Braunfels,  Texas. 

PTILEPIDA  Raf.  Am.  Month.  Mag.  2  :   268  (Feb.  1818). 
[ACTINELLA  Nutt.  Gen.    2:    173  (1818),  not  Pers.  and  not  ACTINEA 

Juss.]    ' 

Ptilepida  linearifolia  (Hook.)  Britton,  Mem.  Torr.   Club,   5  :   340 
(1894). 

Hymenoxys  (?)  linearifolia  Hook.  Icon.  PL  /.  14.6  (1837). 
Actinella  linearifolia  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2  :   383  (1842). 
In  rich  and  often  shaded  ground  about  Kerrville,  growing  in  patches, 
altitude  1620-1650  feet. 

April  19  (1619);  type  locality,  Texas. 


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Ptilepida  scaposa  (DC.)  Britton,  Mem.  Torr.  Club,  5  :   340  (1894). 
Cephalophora  scaposa  DC.  Prodr.  5  :   663  (1836). 
Actinella  scaposa  Nutt.  Trans.  Am.  Phil.  Soc.  (II.)  7:   379  (1841). 
Common  in  dry,  stony  ground  at  Kerrville,  usually  growing  in  scat- 
tered clumps,  altitude  1620-1800  feet. 
April  19  (1614);  type  locality,  Texas. 

SENECIO  L.  Sp.  PL  866  (1753). 
Senecio  lobatus  Pers.  Syn.  2:   436  (1807). 

Senecio  lyratus  Michx.  Fl.  Bor.  Am.  2 :    120  (1803),  not  L. 
Growing  in  a  grassy  meadow  at  the  Oso,  and  also  plentiful  on  the 
plateau  near  Corpus  Christi. 

March  21  (1476);   type  locality,  Carolina. 

CENTAUREA  L.  Sp.  PL  909  (1753). 
Centaurea  Americana  Nutt.  Jour.  Acad.  Phila.  2:   117  (1821). 

Very  plentiful  in  rich,  stony  ground  along  the  summits  of  ridges  on 
the  plateau,  five  miles  north  of  Kerrville,  altitude  1900  feet.  Noticed 
also  along  the  railroad  between  Kerrville  and  San  Antonio,  and  at  San 
Antonio. 

May  21  (1774);  type  locality,  Arkansas. 

CICHORIACEAE. 

PEREZIA  Lag.  Amoen.  Nat.  I  :   31  (1811). 
Perezia  runcinata  Lag. ;  ex  Don,  Trans.  Linn.  Soc.  16  :  207  (1830). 

Clarionea  runcinata  Don,  Trans.  Linn.  Soc.  16  :   207  (1830). 
Near  Corpus  Christi  on  the  plateau,  growing  under  chapparral.     Plen- 
tiful only  at  one  place  along  the  Texas  and  Mexican  Railway,  just  outside 
of  the  town. 

April  9  (1537)  ;  type  locality,  Texas. 

ADOPOGON  Neck.  Elem.  i:   55  (1790). 
[KRIGIA  Schreb.  Gen.  PL  532  (1791).] 

Adopogon  occidentalis  mutica  (T.  &  G.). 

Krigia  occidentalis  mutica  T.  &  G.  FL  N.  A.  2:   468  (1842). 

On  the  plateau  in  northeastern  Kerr  county,  near  Bear  Creek,  altitude 
1900  feet.  Common  but  scattered,  growing  in  post-oak  pasture  land. 

April  30  (1678);  type  locality,  Arkansas. 


Ill 

LEONTODON  L.  Sp.  PI.  798  (1753). 
Leontodon  hispidus  L.  Sp.  PL  799  (1753). 

A  plant  referred  to  this  species  is  common  at  Corpus  Christi,  growing 
in  the  shell  deposit.  The  leaves  are  flat  on  the  ground  and  rather  thick. 
Flowers  expand  only  during  the  forenoon,  and  do  not  remain  open  very 
long. 

March  7  (1401);  type  locality,  Europe. 

PINAROPAPPUS  Less.  Syn.  Comp.  143  (1832). 
Pinaropappus  roseus  Less.  Syn.  Comp.  143  (1832). 

Troximon  Roemerianum  Scheele,  Linnaea,  22:    165  (1849). 
In  stony  ground  about  Kerrville,  especially  on  slopes  and  banks,  alti- 
tude 1620-1800  feet.     Flowers  pale  rose  color,  or  purplish. 
April  19  (1602);  type  locality,  Texas. 

LYGODESMIA  Don,  Edinb.  Phil.  Jour.  6:  305  (1829). 
Lygodesmia  aphylla  Texana  T.  &  G.  Fl.  N.  A.  2:  485  (1842). 

In  open,  usually  grassy  ground,  at  Kerrville,  altitude  1650-1800  feet. 
The  stems  usually  break  off  before  the  deep-seated,  large,  fleshy  root  is 
reached,  in  digging  into  the  hard,  stony  ground. 

May  14  (1734);  type  locality,  Texas. 

SITILIAS  Raf.  New  Fl.  N.  A.  Part  4,  85  (1836). 
[PYRRHOPAPPUS  DC.  Prodr.  7  :   144  (1838).] 

Sitilias  multicaulis  (DC.)  Greene,  Pitt.  2:    179  (1891). 
Pyrrhopappus  multicaulis  DC.  Prodr.  7  :    144  (1838). 

Common  along  Town  Creek  and  the  Guadalupe,  in  wet  or  damp 
ground.  Large  plants  usually  weak  and  slender. 

April  28  (1676);  type  locality,  Texas. 

Sitilias  grandiflora  (Nutt.)  Greene,  Pitt.  2:    180  (1891). 

Parkhausia  grandiflora  Nutt.  Jour.  Acad.  Phila.  7:   69  (1834). 
Pyrrhopappus  scaposus  DC.  Prodr.  7  :    144  (1838). 
At  Corpus  Christv,  in  low,  grassy  land,  along  the  beach,  in  the  south- 
eastern part  of  the  town,  where  it  is  plentiful. 
March  6  (1387);  type  locality,  Arkansas. 


112 


IN  DEX. 


Abutilon 64 

Acacia 6,7,42,43 

Acacia 44, 45 

Acalypha       59 

Acerates 78,  79 

Achryanthes 32 

Actinella 109,  no 

Actinomeris 1 06 

Acuan        44»  45 

Adhatoda 95 

Adiantum •    •    .    .      9 

Adopogon no 

^cidium 81 

Aizoon 35 

Agassizia 109 

Agave 25 

Agrostis 15 

Allionia 34 

Allium •     ....    23 

Allium 23 

Alternanthera 32 

Amaranthus 31,  32 

Amblyolepis 109 

Ambrosia       103 

Amellus loi 

Ammannia 69 

Ammoselinum 72 

Amorpha    .    .    ., 48 

Ampelanus 79 

Ampelopsis 63,  64 

Anantherix 78 

Andropogon      10 

Antirrhinum      91 

Antirrhinum 91 

Aphanostephus loi 

Aphora 60 

Apium 73 

Apium 72,  73 

Aplopappus loo,  10 1 

Arabis 41 

Arenaria 35 

Arenaria       36 

Argemone 38 

Argyrochaeta ,  103 

Argythamnia 60 

Aristida 14 

Asclepias 77 

Asclepias 77,  78 

Asclepiodora 78 

Aspidium 9 

Astragalus 51,  52 

Atrema      72 

Atriplex 31 


Baptisia 46 

Barrattia 105 

Bartonia  t 68 

Batis        . ' 4,  33 

Berberis 37,  38 

Berlandiera 103 

Bifora      7,  71 

Bigelowia 101 

Boehmeria 29 

Boerhavia 34 

Bolivaria      76 

Borrichia 105 

Bouteloua 15,  16 

Bowlesia 74 

Brauneria 104 

Brazoria 7>  ^8 

Briza 17 

Bromus 18 

Buchloe 16 

Bulbilis 16 

Bumelia 75 

Buphthalmuin  . 105 

Caesalpinia 46 

Calceolaria 67 

Callicarpa 85 

Calliopsis      107 

Callirhoe 64,  65 

Calophanes 94 

Calydorea 25 

Catylophus 70 

Calymenia 34 

Calyptocarpus 1 06 

Campanula 99 

Canna    .        26 

Cantua 81 

Capnoides 38 

Capraria 93 

Cardamine 39>  4° 

Cardiospermum  .  .   •     .   •     .     .  ...  .62 

Carum 73 

Carya 26 

Cassia  . 7,  46 

Castela 6,  56 

Castilleja 94 

Ceanothus 63 

Cebatha 38 

Celtis 6,  27,  28,  29 

Cenchrus 14 

Cenchrus 10 

Centaurea lio 

Cephalanthus 96 

Cephalophora no 

Cerasus  .  .    42 


113 

Ceratachloa 18  Discopleura 73 

Cercis 46  Dolichos 53 

Cestrum 90  Draba 40, 41 

Chaerophyllum 72  Dracocephalum 88 

Chamaeraphis 13  Dryopteris 9 

Chamaesaracha 89  Dysodia 108 

Chenopodium 31  Echinacea 104 

Chloris 15  Echinocactus 68 

Chondrophora 101  Echinospermum 83 

Chondrosium 1 6  Ehretia 83 

Chrysopsis 100  Eleocharis 19 

Chthamalia 79  Elusine 16 

Chrysopogon IO  Elymus 19 

Cienfugosia 67  Encelia 105 

Cissus 64  Engelmanma 103 

Cladium 20  Enslenia 79 

Cladothrix 32  Eragrostis 17,  18 

Clarionea HO  Erigeron 102 

Clematis 36,  37  Erinus 93 

Cocculus 38  Eriocarpum 101 

Coelostylis 76  Eriogonum      7,  29 

Colubrina 6,  63  Erodium 53 

Commelina 21  Erysimum 39 

Commelina 22  Erythraea 76, 77 

Conobea '  •    •    •    93  Eupatorium 100 

Convolvulus 80  Euphorbia 60, 61 

Cooperia 24,  25  Eustoma 77 

Coreopsis       ....  .    .  6,  106,  107  Eutoca 82 

Coreopsis       107  Evax 102 

Cornus 74  Evolvulus 80 

Corydalis       38  Eysenhardtia 48 

Cosmidium 107  Fagara 56 

Crataegus 42  Fedia 98 

Cressa 80  Festuca 18 

Croton 58  Festuca 18 

Crusea 97  Filaginopsis 102 

Cucumis 98  Filago 102 

Cucurbita 98  Florestina 108 

Cupressus 9  Fraxinus 76 

Cuscuta 81  Fugosia 67 

Cynoglossum 83  Fuirena      20 

Cynosciadum 72  Gaillardia      109 

Cynosurus 16  Galium  .  97 

Cyperus 19  Galphimia 54 

Dactyloctenium 16  Gaura 71 

Dalea    ...        49  Gelasine 25 

Darlingtonia 44  Gentiana 77 

Darwinia 51  Geranium 53 

Dasylirion 24  Geranium 53 

Daucosma 73  Gilia 81,  82 

Daucus 17  Gnaphalium 102 

Daucus 73  Gomphrena 32,  58 

Delphinium 36  Gomphrena 33 

Desmanthus 44.  45  Gonolobus 79 

Desmodium 52  Gratiola 93 

Dichromena 20  Greenia 15 

Dianthera 95  GrindeJia  .        100 

Digitaria 12  Guiacum 55 

Diodia 97  Hedeoma 85,  86 

Diospyros 75  Hedysarum 52 

Dipteracanthus .    94  Helenium 108 


114 


Helianthus 105 

Heliosciadum 73 

Heliotropium 83 

Hendecandra 58 

Herpeitis 93 

Hicoria 26 

Hicorius 26 

Hofmanseggia      46 

Holcus 10 

Hordeum .    .     19 

Houstonia 96 

Hydrocotyle 74 

Hymenatherum    .        .......  108 

Hymenopappus     .........  107 

Hymenoxys  109 

Ilex 62 

Illecebrium   .....'......     33 

Illecebrum 32 

Indigofera 51 

lonidium 67 

Ipomoea 80 

Ipomoea 91 

Iresine 33 

Jatropha 59 

Juglans    . 7,  26 

Juglans 26 

Juncus 22 

Kallstroemia 35 

Krameria 57 

Krigia no 

Kuhnistera    .    . 7,  49,  50 

Lantana 85 

Lappago 10 

Lappula 83 

Legouzia 99 

Leontodon 1 1 1 

Lepidium 39>8i 

Lepachys 104 

Leptocaulis  ...  73 

Leptochloa > 16 

Lespedeza      52 

Lesquerella 6,  7,  40,  41 

Leucopsidium 101 

Limnodea 14 

Limosella 93 

Linaria 91 

Lindheimera 103 

Linosyris loi 

Linum 54 

Lipochaeta 105 

Lippia 85 

Lisianthus 77 

Lithospermum 83,  84 

Lonicera 98 

Lonicera • 98 

Lupinus 46 

Lycium 81,  89 

Lygodesmia in 

Lythrum    .  • 69 

Malpighia 55 

Malva 65 


Malvastrum 65 

Malvaviscus  •  .    .    .    .     • 67 

Malveopsis 65 

Marilaunidium      82 

Marshallia 107 

Maurandia 91 

Maximowicza 99 

Medicago 47 

Megapterium 70 

Meibomia 52 

Melampodium 102 

Melia      57 

Melica 18 

Melilotus 47 

Menispermum 38 

Menodora 76 

Mentzelia 68 

Meriolix 70 

Metastelma 79 

Mimosa 43 

Mimosa     . 42,  44 

Mirabilis 34 

Mollugo 35 

Monarda •   8,  87 

Monechma    .    .    .    .    : 95 

Monniera 93 

Morongia 44 

Morus 28 

Mozinna 59 

Nama 82 

Nasturtium 39,  40,  41 

Nazia .    .     10 

Neckeria 38 

Neptunia 45 

Nicotiana 90 

Nicotiana 91 

Nothoscordum 23 

Nuttallia 65 

CEnothera 70 

OEnothera 70 

Oldenlandia 96 

Oligogyne 106 

Onosmodium 83,  84 

Opuntia 68,  69 

Oxalis 54 

Oxybaphus 34 

Palafoxia 108 

Panicum n,  12,  13 

Panicum 13 

Parietaria       29 

Parkhausia in 

Parkinsonia 45 

Paronychia 36 

Parosela 49 

Parthenium 103 

Paspalum 10,  1 1 

Paspalum 12 

Pavonia 67 

Pentagonia 99 

Pentstemon 91,  92,  93 

Perezia  .no 


115 


Petalostemon      49,  50,  51 

Petunia      ^ 91 

Phacelia 82 

Phalaris 14 

Philoxerus        33 

Phlox     . 81 

Phoradendron 29 

Phyllanthus 57 

Physalis 89 

Physostegia 68 

Physostegia 88 

Phytolacca 33 

Pinaropappus ill 

Plantago 95,  96 

Platanus 41 

Pleurobolus 52 

Poa 17,  18 

Polanisia 41 

Polecarpon 35 

Polemonium 81 

Polygala 57 

Polygonum 30,  31 

Polypremum      76 

Polypteris 108 

Polytaenia 72 

Porliera      55 

Portulaca 35 

Prosopis 5,  6,  29,  45 

Prunus 42 

Psoralea 47, 48 

Psoralea         . 49 

Ptelea ...     56 

Pterota 56 

Ptilepida 109,  no 

Ptilimnium 73 

Pyrrkopappus Ill 

Quercus 49 

Ranunculus 37 

Rhamnus 63 

Rhantnus      63 

Rhus 6l,  62 

Ridan 106 

Rivina 33 

Roripa 39,  41 

Rosa 42 

Rudbeckia 104 

Rudbeckia 104 

Ruellia 94 

Rumex 30 

Rutosma 56 

Salix 26 

Salvia 86 

Salviastrum 86 

Samolus 74,  75 

Sanicula 72 

Sapindus 8,  62 

Sarratia 31 

Schinus 56 

Schizocarya -71 

Schoenocaulon 24 

Schoenus   .  .    .     20 


Schrankia 44 

Scirpus 19,  20 

Scutellaria 87,  88 

Senecio no 

Sesbania ...    51 

Sesleria 16 

Sesuvium 35 

Setaria  13,  14 

Sicydium       99 

Sida    ....  .  65,  66 

Sida 64 

Sieglingia 16,  17 

Silene  .    .    .    .' 35 

Silphium        103 

Siphonoglossa 95 

Sison          73 

Sisymbrium  39 

Sisymbrium      39,  40 

Sisyrinchium 25 

Sitilias    ..  in 

Smilax 24 

Solanum  90 

Solatium    .    .  89 

Sophora ...    46 

Sorghum  10 

Specular ia  .    .     99 

Spergularia 36 

Spermolepis       73 

Sphaeralcea  .    .  ...  67 

Spigelia      76 

Stachys       88 

Stemmodontia 105 

Stevia 108 

Stillingia 59 

Suaeda 4,  31 

Symphoricarpos     .        ...        .  98 

Synedrella      ....        .  .    .  106 

Syntherisma 12 

Synthlipsis 41 

Talinum 35 

Taxodium  9 

Tetragonotheca    ....  ...  105 

Teucrium      .  88,  89 

Thamnosma .         55 

Thelesperma     .  7,  107 

Thryallis  ...  ....    54 

Thurberia ...     15 

Tillandsia  .        21 

Tinantia 22 

Tissa  36 

Tradescantia 21 

Tradescantia 22 

Tragia 59 

Tragus IO 

Tribulus     .  ....  .        .55 

Trie  odium     ...  15 

Tricuspis 16,  17 

Trifolium 47 

Triodia      .    .    .     16 

Trisetum 15 

Troximon  .III 


116 

Turritis 41     Vicia ....    53 

Unguadia 62      Viguiera 105 

Uniola .    .    .     18     Vincetoxicum 79 

Urtica ; 28      Viola  68 

Urtica    .    .        ...  ...        .29     Vitis .    63 

Usteria .    91  Vitis           ...            ......    64 

Utricularia             94  Wedelia    .            ........  105 

Valerianella 98     Xexmenia  105 

Verbascum .    .        .91     Xylopleurum     . 70 

Verbena 85     Yucca  .  23,  24 

Verbena "...    84     Zanthoxylum 56 

Verbesina  106     Zimenesia 106 

Vernonia ...  99,  100     Zizania ...     14 

Veronica    .    .  64     Zizaniopsis .    14 

Vesicaria 40     Zizyphus 4 

Viburnum      97 


Plate  1. 


Rumex  spiralis  Small. 


Plate  2. 


Kuhnistera  pulcherrima  A.  A.  Heller. 


Plate  3. 


Samolus  alyssoides  A.  A.  Heller. 


Plate  4. 


Asclepias  Texana  A.  A.  Heller. 


Plate  5. 


Cressa  aphylla  A.  A.  Heller. 


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Plate  7. 


Pensteinon  Gnadalupensis  A.  A.  Heller. 


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